Displaying custom fields on subtask columns
by Jobin Kuruvilla
JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition
- JIRA Development Cookbook Third Edition
- JIRA Development Cookbook Third Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Plugin Development Process
- 2. Understanding the Plugin Framework
- Introduction
- Modifying Atlassian bundled plugins
- Converting plugins from V1 to V2
- Adding resources into plugins
- Adding web resources into plugins
- Building JIRA from source
- Adding new webwork actions to JIRA
- Form token handling in webwork actions
- Capturing plugin installation/uninstallation events
- 3. Working with Custom Fields
- Introduction
- Writing a simple custom field
- Custom field searchers
- Dealing with custom fields on an issue
- Programming custom field options
- Overriding the validation of custom fields
- Customizing the change log value
- Migrating from one custom field type to another
- Making custom fields sortable
- Displaying custom fields on subtask columns
- User and date fields
- Adding custom fields to notification e-mails
- Adding help text for a custom field
- Removing the "none" option from a select field
- Making the custom field project importable
- Changing the size of a text area custom field
- 4. Programming Workflows
- Introduction
- Writing a workflow condition
- Writing a workflow validator
- Writing a workflow post function
- Editing an active workflow
- Permissions based on workflow status
- Including/excluding resolutions for specific transitions
- Adding workflow triggers
- Internationalization in workflow statuses
- Obtaining available workflow actions programmatically
- Programmatically progressing on workflows
- Obtaining workflow history from the database
- Reordering workflow actions in JIRA
- Creating common transitions in workflows
- Creating global transitions in workflows
- 5. Gadgets and Reporting in JIRA
- 6. The Power of JIRA Searching
- Introduction
- Writing a JQL function
- Sanitizing JQL functions
- Adding a search request view
- Smart querying using quick search
- Searching in plugins
- Parsing a JQL query in plugins
- Linking directly to search queries
- Index and de-index issues programmatically
- Searching on issue entity properties
- Managing filters programmatically
- Subscribing to a filter
- 7. Programming Issues
- Introduction
- Creating an issue from a plugin
- Creating subtasks on an issue
- Updating an issue
- Deleting an issue
- Adding new issue operations
- Conditions on issue operations
- Working with attachments
- Time tracking and worklog management
- Working with comments on issues
- Programming change logs
- Programming issue links
- JavaScript tricks on issue fields
- Creating issues and comments from e-mail
- 8. Customizing the UI
- Introduction
- Changing the basic look and feel
- Adding new web sections in the UI
- Adding new web items in the UI
- Use of decorators and other metadata tags
- Adding conditions for web fragments
- Creating new velocity context for web fragments
- Adding a new drop-down menu on the top navigation bar
- Dynamic creation of web items
- Adding new tabs in the View Issue screen
- Adding new tabs in the Browse Project screen
- Adding new links in the Project-centric view
- Adding new panels in the project-centric view
- Adding sub-navigation in Project-centric view
- Adding issue link renderers
- Displaying dynamic notifications/warnings on issues
- Re-ordering Issue Operations in the View Issue page
- Re-ordering fields in the View Issue page
- 9. Remote Access to JIRA
- Introduction
- Writing Java client for REST API
- Working with issues
- Working with attachments
- Remote time tracking
- Working with comments
- Remote user and group management
- Progressing an issue in workflow
- Searching issues
- Managing versions
- Managing components
- Remote administration methods
- Exposing services and data entities as REST APIs
- Using the REST API browser
- Working with JIRA Webhooks
- 10. Dealing with the JIRA Database
- Introduction
- Extending the JIRA database with a custom schema
- Accessing database entities from plugins
- Persisting plugin information in the JIRA database
- Using Active Objects to store data
- Accessing the JIRA configuration properties
- Getting a database connection for JDBC calls
- Migrating a custom field from one type to another
- Retrieving issue information from a database
- Retrieving custom field details from a database
- Retrieving permissions on issues from a database
- Retrieving workflow details from a database
- Updating the issue status in a database
- Retrieving users and groups from a database
- Dealing with change history in a database
- 11. Useful Recipes
- Introduction
- Writing a service in JIRA
- Adding configurable parameters to a service
- Writing scheduled tasks in JIRA
- Writing listeners in JIRA
- Customizing e-mail content
- Redirecting to a different page in webwork actions
- Adding custom behavior for user details
- Deploying a servlet in JIRA
- Adding shared parameters to Servlet Context
- Writing a Servlet Context Listener
- Using filters to intercept queries in JIRA
- Adding and importing components in JIRA
- Adding new module types to JIRA
- Enabling access logs in JIRA
- Enabling SQL logging in JIRA
- Internationalization in webwork plugins
- Sharing common libraries across v2 plugins
- Operations using direct HTML links
- Implementing Marketplace licensing in plugins
This is one of the easiest things that you can do! But it adds a lot of value at times. We are talking about adding extra columns for subtasks on the parent issue page.
We know how to add fields to subtasks in JIRA, don't we? Let us see how we can make those fields appear in the parent issue page. We will use a URL custom field as an example in this recipe.
Adding new columns to the subtasks view can be done easily by modifying the advanced property named jira.table.cols.subtasks. This property is available under Administration | System |General Configuration | Advanced Settings.
For example, if you want to add a custom field to the existing list of columns, you can do that by including the custom field ID, as shown here:
The updated property value will be issuetype, status, assignee, customfield_10400, progress.
Similarly, you can add the id of other standard or custom fields, if you want to see them in the subtask list. But care must be taken not to add too many fields or add big fields such as description, as that will clutter the parent issue page.
JIRA renders the subtask columns on the View Issue page by looking at the aforementioned property. While adding the standard subtask fields is useful, adding custom fields can be extremely helpful sometimes.
In our example, we have added customfield_10400, where 10400 is the numeric ID for the custom field. It stores the URL associated with the task, as shown:
Looks useful, doesn't it?
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