Adding custom fields to emails

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Apart from getting notifications about updates to custom fields in issues, you can have additional custom fields displayed in your emails. You can display a custom field anywhere in the email, like footer, header, and even email subject.

These tutorials are for advanced users, and are out of scope of Atlassian support. You will be adding custom fields by editing the code in the Velocity templates, which email notifications are based on.

Overview

Email notifications inform you about changes in the issue's fields (both built-in and custom fields). If a field's value did not change, it won't be included in the notification, because there's nothing to be notified about. After all, notifications are all about showing a change.

Here you can learn how to include a custom field, and its current value, in every notification for an issue, even if this field wasn't updated. You can use it to describe the issues you're being notified about more precisely. For example, you can include a custom field that specifies the issue's security level, and then properly categorize or even hide the notifications for this issue. 

Which email notifications are you using?

Check which notifications are you using, as both types are based on different templates.

TypeDescription
Separate

Separate notifications have been the default notification type before Jira 8.4. In this type, every update to your issue is sent in a separate email.

If you'd like to use these notifications, you have to disable the batched ones. To do this, go to > System, and open the Batching email notifications page.

Add custom fields to separate email notifications

Batched

Batched email notifications are the default notifications. In this type, issue updates that occur close together are grouped and sent in a single email.

Batched notifications were introduced in Jira 8.0, however you can add custom fields only from Jira 8.1 (in these versions, batched notifications must be enabled).

Add custom fields to batched email notifications

Last modified on May 7, 2020

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