JIRA Toolkit

For anyone who wants the "Tools" column not to be included when exported to Excel, see http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-7871

• Neal -

Greetings from Berlin, Germany!

Is it possible to modify the "Participants Field" for a ability to search for participant "Groups" as well?

Hi,

It is possibel to extend teh field to do this. You will need to make the field index the groups of users as well as users. The information might get out of date, if group memebership is changed.

You will need to also create a searcher that allows users to query these groups.

I hoep this hekps. If you have any questions tregarding implementing this field or any other questions please sign up on http://support.atlassian.com and create a support issue.

Thanks,
Anton

How would I update the "Days Since Last Update" red-trigger so that the days increase from 7 to, say, 14? Any help??

I don't know how to compile it per se, but it was easy to find the source code you'd want to change.
There's a file called jira-toolkit-0.5.1\src\etc\templates\last-commented.vm
with code like this:
#if (!$issue.resolution && $value.intValue() > 604800)
which is the number of seconds in a week (60*60*24*7)
I guess it also bolds it after 4 weeks?
#if (!$issue.resolution && $value.intValue() > 2419200)

• Neal -

Participants is defined as: "any issues you've commented on, raised or are the current assignee.".
My use case is to see who performed an action (e.g. resolve) on the issue. When re-opening a resolved issue, I need to send it back to the person who resolved it. Now, I have to use Change History to see that. If the participants field also included the user who resolved it, it would save me some time. Would this be of interest to others as well? How do others know who to resolve issues back to?

• Neal -

Next time you're in there you can fix the typo in the Support Toolbar description:
"Displays the some action links on the issu navigator:"

• Neal -

I really like the idea of a "Last commented by a User Flag". The only problem is that in our case none of the "developers" in the project are Jira administrators. It would be really cool if this feature could be enhanced to support for instance: "Last commented by user not in group XXX".

Ah... I was mislead by the documentation and the "create custom field" screen since both states: "Displays true if last commenter who is not a JIRA administrator."

It would be really nice if we could select the group when configuring the field. We "renamed" the jira-developers group to "internal" to not confuse our non-technical users and I guess that there are other users out there who also want to use other groups for this functionality.

BTW: Which Jira project should we use to submit feature requests for the jira-toolkit?

Thanks for the help.

Looks like 0.6.1 is reported at Plugin Version 0.5.

Hi, I installed the Toolbar in Jira 3.4 to get the Edit|Comment fields in the issue navigator.
However, when you edit an issue by clicking on the link, the returnURL is set to something like

http:...id=12345&returnUrl=/jira//secure/IssueNavigator.jspa

This confuses Jira: When the issue is updated, the whole Layout is screwed up.

Hi Andreas,

First of all, could you create an issue at http://support.atlassian.com? This will make it easier to track the problem and also stop filling up this page with comments.

In terms of the error itself, all the toolbar does to generate the URL is to obtain the url from the request, which by all accounts should not be corrupted.

So in the issue you create could you answer the following questions:

1. What application server you are using (i.e. Tomcat or Websphere)?
2. What is the url when you make the search (when you click on 'View')?
   This should give further indication as to the cause of the problem.

Thanks,
Brian

Sorry if this is answered elsewhere: are some or all of these useful field types going to be rolled in to the main Jira product itself in the near future?There are several issues in Jira along some similar lines of what some of these tools provide, including http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-8813?page=all , http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-7133 , http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-8527

    Regards,
       Steve

Steve,

Yes we are hoping to migrate most useful items into the JIRA core eventually. Code in the toolkit usually is not as clean as we would like it to be, and hence has not been put into JIRA. As JIRA becomes more flexible we should be able to merge the functionality.

Unfortunately at the moment due to a large number of feature request I am not able to provide a time line for this.

Thanks,
Anton

I would like to use this with JIRA Professional 3.4.3, but the toolkit 0.6.2 is guaranteed to be compatible with JIRA 3.4.2 only. Can I expect a newer toolkit version soon or is it already compatible (and stable) with the newest JIRA?

Regards,

Daniel

Tried the Support Toolbar. It works when i add the column into my Issue Navigator. If i try to comment a issue with option in the toolbar, it takes me to directly to comment that issue. But the action "Cancel" in Comment/Edit option does destroy all the page formatting .

Regards,

Kalyan 

Hi,

I see that there is a new version 0.7.3 available, but I don't understand what the new feature " Added Auto-Transition Listener" will do.

 Regards
Sven

can the "comment" field be customized?

I want to add some fields to the "comment" . eg:"how to analysis"

Hello!

I'm an admin of a Jira enterprise 3.5.1 and I'm preparing the upgrade to 3.6.2. Right now I'm checking all plugins I installed in my productive system to see if they have a newer version I can use after upgrading.

I've just tested the participants field of the Jira Toolkit plugin version 0.7.6 with Jira enterprise standalone 3.6.2, by searching for myself as participant.

My search result is empty, even if I participated to many issues.

If I search for myself as assignee, there are a lot.

Could the participant field type be broken in 3.6.2?

Cheers

Bettina Zucker 

The action "Cancel" of the Edit and Comment of the Toolbar still destroys the display of the Issue Navigator window.
Previously mentioned by Kalyan in March-07.
I use jira-toolkit-0.7.8 with JIRA 3.6.2.

-- 
Vinh-Thach

I want to display a hint on the create and edit page of a new Jira project, that looks like a confluence info-makro.
I absolutly not in html. I have tried to figure it out by looking in the page source of an confluence site, but this doesn't help me.
Is is it possible to give a short example, by which html-code the screenshot of the "Message Custom Fields" is rendered.

Thanks,

Christoph

Regarding the Participants field... Is there a way to use that field when setting up the notification scheme?

What I'd like to do is add a a notification to the Issue Commented event that would send an email to everyone in the Participants field when the event is fired. I noticed that the field doesn't show up in the User Custom Field Value combo box when adding a notification. I was hoping to find a way to do this without having to create a custom event and modify every workflow transition.

Thanks,

Matt

I'm having some trouble with the "Multi Issue Key Searcher". I didn't write up a bug because I assume I'm just doing something stupid.

Here's what I did to install:

• We have existing data.
• I installed this plugin, restarted Jira, etc.
• I added a Custom Field called "Multi-Issue" and set the Search Template to "Multi Issue Searcher".
• Its context is Global (All Issues)
• It is not set up for any screens.
• I reindexed.

Here's how I tried to use it:

• I go to a project and click on the "All" for the issue filter.
• I choose Filter: Edit
• I scroll down to Custom Fields and put "TST-222" in the field named "Multi-Issue" (which I created above)
• No matching issues are found.

There is a perfectly good TST-222. I can never get any issues to show up doing this.
Further, if I add the Multi-Issue column to my Navigator, it always shows up empty. It never has the ordering icons in it.

Any ideas appreciated,
Shannon

(Enterprise Edition, Version: 3.6.3-#159)
Description: JIRA Toolkit Plugin: A collection of useful Custom Fields
Vendor: Atlassian Software Systems Pty Ltd
Plugin Version: 0.7.8
Jira Version: 3.6

Has version 0.7.8 been testd on MS-SQL server database? I am getting numerous errors in my logs and have to re-index constantly. I am thinking it might be related to the most recent change:
" Participants custom field is faster due to direct SQL statements."
My errors look like this:  ERROR [jira.toolkit.customfield.ParticipantsDAO] java.lang.NullPointerException

Matt,

Unfortunately the participants can't be added to the notification scheme. You could do it as a listener or you could create a new notification type with the Jira code (that would be the most correct solution).

Cheers,
Nick

Hi Nick,

Do you planned (in the next version) of the JIRA Toolkit to give the ability to use the participants field in the notification scheme ? It would help us a lot...

Cheers,
David

Hello,

Where can I get 0.7.9's source code?

Thanks,
Samuel Cai

 Hi, I need resolved date and closed date information to be inside issue navigator. In this plugin there is resolved date as a   custom field, do you know whether there is a plugin for closed date.  Thanks too much.

How about an example of how to use the velocity processed text messages. To test it, I've tried creating a message that displays the issue key using velocity code I found in the WEB-INF folder.

<a href="${req.getContextPath()}/browse/${issue.key}">$textutils.htmlEncode($issue.key)</a>

but it causes an error when the screen is displayed.

An error occurred whilst rendering this message. Please contact the administrators, and inform
them of this bug. Details: ------- java.lang.NullPointerException

Hello

is there a way to get the "days since last reply" column into the column listing on the dashboard blocks? I found no way of configuring the portlets anymore than show/hide. For a quick overview it would make things very comfortable to have the red marking in the "Assigned to me" block also.

Thx for information,

anja

The Toolbar component which provides 'Comment' and 'Edit' links in the Issue Navigator is generating invalid links after you have finished your edit or comment and results in the user being returned to invalid path.

The valid URL for our Issue Navigator is: http://my.company.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa

Hit Edit on a issue in the navigator and you are taken correctly to the Edit Issue screen. Hit Save or Cancel from that screen and you are returned to an invalid URL that contains the name JIRA again. e.g.

 http://my.company.com/*jira*/*jira*/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa

We have defined our base URL in the General Configuration as being http://my.company.com/jira* which works for emails generated etc from JIRA. Is the plugin not honouring this information (ie it is appending this on regarless of what base URL has been defined as) or have we set base URL to the wrong information (i.e. is should be http://my.company.com and *not http://my.company.com/jira)

All help appreciated! 

Could you please make the links customizable? I would like to add "Log work" there. I now have extracted templates/support-tools.vm, added:

<a href="$

/secure/LogWork!default.jspa?id=$

&returnUrl=$!

">Log work</a>#if ($ableToEditIssue) | #end

and saved the file in WEB-INF/classes/templates/support-tools.vm. That work, but is an ugly hack. Or is there an other way to add a Log work link to the Issue Navigator?

Is it support v3.8 well?

I think this might be related to JTOOL-1 and I would like some update on this. When using the Multi Issue Key Searcher, I am able to select certain issues to be displayed in my Issue Navigator. Unfortunately, when I go to export my Navigator view (to Word, RSS, Excel) it exports the whole project instead of the the few issues I selected. I tried this on http://jira.atlassian.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa to make sure it wasn't my installation. Any help on this?

Hello,

you say 0.7.21 is for jira 3.9.x.

But the last released jira is 3.8.1!

Where is it possible to get jira 3.9?

 Cheers

Bettina Zucker 

Original Estimate custom field is said to be applicable for inline-editing, though it isn't. Corresponding configuration is commented in the atlassian-plugin.xml. Is it a mistake or the field is not planned for editing?

Hi,

I run Jira standard edition 3.10 and have a question with regards to filters and the Jira toolkit:

 
Is it possible to make a filter which searches on the "Days since last comment" field? Or must I use the Udated From: - To: field, to filter activities on an issue? I want to filter issues which have not been commented the last 5 days..

Thnx,

Runar 

Is it possible to make a filter that shows last commented by developers? So the field being false not true?

Would be nice if the releases table also gave the revision number for each release, so I could just sync to that revision rather than download the source for whatever jira version I have. Not specific to this jira toolkit...
cheers, jamie

Am I crazy or do the (non velocity processed) message display fields disappear if you try to submit an issue without filling out a required field? We had a "Policy" on a create issue screen, similar to the create issue notice ("test issues should be created in a test project") on http://jira.atlassian.com/ when you attempt to submit a bug against the Jira project.

That policy disappears when you don't specficy a required field (like summary). Is this a bug? Anyone know a workaround?

Thanks...

• Mark

I cannot find the sources for versions 0.7.19 - 0.7.21. Is there a particular reason for not having them in the distribution folder?

Cheers,
Aggelos

Can you make a Message Custom Field for Create?  Personally this is more useful to me than for edit/view.

i am unable to download the latest version (from any browser). Whassup?

it's OK now

Hello guys!

I noticed there is a "User Property customfield" in this plugin.

It's a nice feature, since without it there is in Jira the possibility to assign some properties to users, but you don't know how to read them!

For example, I created a field "Assignee Company" based on this feature. Now I can see in each issue, whether it was assigned to an external partner company and set the security level accordingly.

Why don't you advertise this useful feature at all?

Why not get a step further, and allow to search fields of this type?

I did it my self in your plugin (version 0.7.28) by only one minimal change. I only had to change the atlassian-plugin.xml, where I added the field to the Free Text Searcher, now I can search Issues where the user has a given property value (e.g. Assignee Company = Atlassian) and even compute statistics on it! (Free Text Searcher is a stattable searcher).

Interestingly, this change does not even need rebuilding the package, just adding one line to one text file!

Here is my change in atlassian-plugin.xml with some context (the penultimate line was added):

<customfield-searcher key="textsearcher" name="Free Text Searcher" class="com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.searchers.StattableTextSearcher">
 <description>Search for values using a free text  search.</description>
 <resource type="velocity" name="search" location="templates/plugins/fields/edit/edit-basictext.vm" />
 <resource type="velocity" name="view" location="templates/plugins/fields/view-searcher/view-searcher-basictext.vm" />
 <resource type="velocity" name="label" location="templates/plugins/fields/view-searcher/label-searcher-basictext.vm" />
 <valid-customfield-type package="com.atlassian.jira.toolkit" key="reporterdomain" />
 <valid-customfield-type package="com.atlassian.jira.toolkit" key="assigneedomain" />
 <valid-customfield-type package="com.atlassian.jira.toolkit" key="userproperty" />
</customfield-searcher>

Since it is very easy, everybody can do it for themselves... but it would be better if you do it in the official version.

Cheers!

Bettina

Hello again!

Another feature is on my wishlist since long time.

Could you enhance the Free Text Searcher to include searching empty fields?

When I have a statistics based on a field with this searcher, it is a pity I can select everything but the issue which have field value "None".

But exactly these issues I often have to select!

I'm often doing a statistics to check if every issue has a sensible value for the field, and I would like to be able to get and bulk correct the issues where setting a value was forgotten at all.

I know there is a plugin for searching the value "None" in custom fields (http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAEXT/Enhanced+FreeText+Searcher).

But that searcher is as far as I know not stattable, but only sortable!

Cheers

Bettina

Any chance that a Ranking field could be added and controlled by either moving the issues up and down, or using a number field to set the order (i.e. ordering fields when you edit screens in Jira through as a Jira admin).

You would make a lot of scrum based devlopment teams very happy.

Cheers

Hello

it looks like there's a bug upon AutoTransitionListener.init in v0.7.28 : projectKeys is not initalized if * is used as project keys (line 69).

             if ("*".equals(projectList)) allProjects = true;
            else projectKeys = projectList.split(",");

Then getInfoMessage is called and throws a NPE on line 88 when trying to loop upon projectKeys.length.

        String projects = (allProjects ? "all projects" : (projectKeys.length == 0 ? "no projects (ie. disabled)" : (projectKeys.length > 1 ? "projects " : "project ")));
        for (int i=0; i<projectKeys.length; i++)
        {

I've just opened http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/JTOOL-60.

Cheers

hallo

i would like to try some of the features from this toolbox but i fail to install the plugin:

2008-12-08 18:32:43,097 main ERROR [com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager] Error occurred while starting component.
com.atlassian.jira.exception.DataAccessException: org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericEntityException: while inserting: [Generi
cEntity:PluginVersion][key,com.atlassian.jira.toolkit][created,2008-12-08 18:32:43.048][name,JIRA Toolkit Plugin][id,100
30][version,0.7.28] (SQL Exception while executing the following:INSERT INTO pluginversion (ID, pluginname, pluginkey, p
luginversion, CREATED) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?) (Duplicate entry '10030' for key 1))
        at com.atlassian.jira.ofbiz.DefaultOfBizDelegator.createValue(DefaultOfBizDelegator.java:333)
        at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.OfBizPluginVersionStore.create(OfBizPluginVersionStore.java:45)
        at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.JiraPluginManager.storePluginVersion(JiraPluginManager.java:147)

at key '10030' there is a Riskmanagement Plugin in the database (plugin key: com.ja.jira.plugin.report.riskmanagement)

i am running jira 3.13.1 and tried both:
0.7.29
0.7.28

(as there is no jira 3.13.2 version?) with the same effect.

can i just change the id in this table or would that be bad?

thanks for any kind of help

Hi,
I have a user asking about providing a Component level 'URL' link to a Confluence 'about' page, similar to project level URL link. Given 10 components, I wondered about a custom field, but I want to be able to set the value at creation (a default value I suppose) that's specific to the given Component.

I saw the Message Custom field which looks almost perfect, if only I could preset values and select them based on the component. Looking ahead, I guess a problem with this would be when moving issues between components...

A simpler but error prone route would be to just use a basic Text custom field for the user to just paste a URL...

Can anyone think of a solution to this?

Cheers,
andy

Hello,

Is it already possible to change the threshold for marking a issue red in the days since last comment field from 7 days to a different value?

Cheers,

Roberto

For anyone who wished he could diaplay a message in a workflow screen

I have found out that the Velocity (for edit) field type is also displayed in the workflow screen , and can be used as a message (and much more)

Hi guys,
I recently developed a plugin where I added a Custom Field which is shown in the Jira Operations menu as a link - DONE.
I am now trying to restrict display of this custom field to only be visible to projects configured to have this custom field shown.
I initially looked into CustomFieldUtils()->isUserHasPermissionToProjects(customField, user) method it's not working...
Anyone here got any better ideas?
Thanks!
2T

Hi,

Looks like a great toolkit. I installed it, and enabled it in the plugins section. However the edit/comment links do not show up in the issue navigator.

Did I miss something?

I performed the steps:

Download the jar and place in your webapp's lib folder (For Standalone/Tomcat it is in the WEB-INF/lib dir)

1. Restart JIRA
2. Enable the plugin as shown here
3. New custom field types will now be available to your system
4. Add a new custom field of the types you want in your system from the "Admin" > "Issue Fields" > "Custom Fields"
5. Reindex JIRA. This is quite important as most of the custom fields are "calculated" custom fields, which means until you reindex, the values will not be valid.

Step 3 and 4 I skipped cause I just want the edit/comment links, nothing more.

I want to check if I missed something before creating an issue.

Thanks

Is it possible to "add participant" or otherwise edit the list of participants as an administrator? If so, how?

Hi. Not really a toolkit question, but it's worth asking

Where (or how) can I see all methods that I can call using velocity in the Velocity processed Message Custom Field ?

I know how to check for the issue type ($issue.getIssueTypeObject().getName()), and for the group ($authcontext.user.inGroup()).

How do I get the name (or ID) of the status the issue is in? And how do I get the assignee, the reporter and the current user viewing/creating the issue?

Generally, I want to make all workflows more user-friendly by displaying different messages depending:
* on the status issue is in
* on the issue type
* on groups/roles the viewer is in...

Thank you

I would like to extend the participants field to also include every user that the issue has ever been assigned to. In our workflows issues flow through the workflow, but comments are not often used on transitions. I could make them mandatory (the comments) but quite often that doesn't make sense.

Salutations,

It seems that I'm having problems in one of the plugins feature: Message Custom Fields. The custom field that I created doesn't show in the create screen(for the edit custom field) & view screen (for the view custom field). I tried reindexing but unfortunately nothing appeared in the mentioned screens.

Btw, I'm using JIRA 3.12.3 dev instance & plugin ver. 7.25.

What do you think is the problem?

Thanks in advance.

Salutations,

Have you guys tried using the "Username of last updater or commenter" custom field type? It seems that I'm having difficulties in using it.

Here's the things that I did:

• I made per Project & Issue Type.
• I even made it a global field and included it in my Edit and View screen.
• I checked the Field Config and its not hidden.

But still it didn't work. I cant see the custom field I created when I view an issue.

How do you activate it? Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.

Will JTOOL-53 be getting any attention in the next version? As far as I can tell the code is written and just needs to be checked in and built with the next release. This work would resolve JRA-2734 which has 41 votes... a big win!

Using the "Velocity processed Message Custom Field (for view)" option, I've tried to add the following to the default Issue view, but I can't seem to find the right namespace to address getUserProperties() within.

Any suggestions?

-----

#set($userProperties = $user.getUserProperties($issue.reporter.name))
#if(!$userProperties.isEmpty())
User Properties:
  #foreach($userProperty in $userProperties.keySet())
    <img src="$baseurl/images/icons/bullet_blue.gif" height="8" width="8" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="">
    $userProperty : $textutils.plainTextToHtml($userProperties.get($userProperty)) <br/>
  #end
#end

Hi guys

Are you still supporting the Remote Portlet?

I can't get it up and running with two servers running 3.13.2 - we only see a 500 error from the remote server and a series of errors logged.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Scott

I'm trying to use the "velocity processed message" custom field.
I create a custom field using the plugin from the Jira Toolkit but when I go to configure the Default value I receive a page with no text box to submit a default value.