Changing the Size of the Text Area Custom Field

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Atlassian does not support customisations to Velocity templates or other JIRA files. For more information about Atlassian support, see Atlassian Support Offerings.

Deploying Velocity Templates without a Restart

In a development instance, you can play with picking up velocity file changes without a restart.
From <jira-install>/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/velocity.properties:

  1. Change class.resource.loader.cache from true to false
  2. Uncomment (remove the # sign from) #velocimacro.library.autoreload=true

Keep in mind that the next time you upgrade JIRA – or need a new installation for any reason – you will have to manually copy any changes you have made to the JSPs or tempates into the new installation of JIRA. If the JSPs or templates have changed in the newer version, you will have to port your customization into them.

To work around the fixed size of a comment field, edit <jira-install>/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/templates/plugins/fields/edit/edit-textarea.vm.

To change the size for all rows:
  
$!rendererParams.put("rows", "2")
To change the size for a particular custom field:
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In this example, the custom field's id is 10220. You can get this value from editing the custom field and checking the URL.

#controlHeader ($action $customField.id $customField.name $fieldLayoutItem.required $displayParameters.noHeader)

#if ($!customField.id=="customfield_10220")
  ## setup some additional parameters
  $!rendererParams.put("rows", "2")
  $!rendererParams.put("cols", "40")
  $!rendererParams.put("wrap", "virtual")

  ## let the renderer display the edit component
  $rendererDescriptor.getEditVM($!value, $!issue.key, $!fieldLayoutItem.rendererType, $!customField.id, $!customField.name, $rendererParams, false)

#elseif ($!customField.isRenderable() && $rendererDescriptor)

  ## setup some additional parameters
  $!rendererParams.put("rows", "2")
  $!rendererParams.put("cols", "40")
  $!rendererParams.put("wrap", "virtual")

  ## let the renderer display the edit component
  $rendererDescriptor.getEditVM($!value, $!issue.key, $!fieldLayoutItem.rendererType, $!customField.id, $!customField.name, $rendererParams, false)

#else

  <textarea name="$customField.id"
            id="$customField.id"
            class="textfield"
            rows="4" cols="40" wrap="virtual"
  >$textutils.htmlEncode($!value)</textarea>
#end

#controlFooter ($action $fieldLayoutItem.fieldDescription $displayParameters.noHeader)

There is a feature request to allow this customization from within JIRA at JRA-20248.

Last modified on Nov 3, 2016

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