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This is a constantly updated FAQ listing questions and answers asked by people developing JIRA plugins and working with the JIRA code base in general.

If you have a question, please ask it on our Developer Forums and certain threads will be merged back into the FAQ.

 

Questions

Can I have a different Excel template for each report?
Creating and Editing an Issue
How do I create a report with custom issue set using IssueNavigator
How do I extract CVS commits for an issue
How do I find all Versions in a Project?
How do I find issues with field X?
How do I get a handle to object X (specifically IssueNavigator)?
How do I get a handle to the 'components' of a JIRA project?
How do I get a handle to the model (issues) then iterate?
How do I get access to manager X?
How do I get access to the current request?
How do I get determine which Issues a user is allowed to see?
How do I get more help with SOAP?
How do I know what else lurks in the Velocity context?
How do I remove an issue operation?
How do I set the value for default comment security level?
How do I write a servlet for JIRA?
How to add searching to a Custom Field?
How to search for Issues based on CustomField
How to search for Issues from within a Plugin
How to set a custom field value on an issue?
I have a GenericValue issue. How do I convert this to an Issue object?
Is it possible to have a report plugin only appear for specific projects?
Why am I getting 'Exception looking up public key' exception while building a plugin?

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  1. Nov 17, 2005

    David Peterson [CustomWare] says:

    How do I link to resources (eg. images) which are included in the plugin jar fil...

    How do I link to resources (eg. images) which are included in the plugin jar file? In Confluence, you can have a 'download' resource type, which is accessible via the '[context.path]/download/resources/[plugin.key:component]/[my.resource]' URL. Is such a thing possible in Jira? I haven't been able to find a way...