As we have discussed earlier, JIRA ships with some predefined custom field types. One such commonly used type is the text area field.
The text area field has a predefined width and height, which is not customizable. It is often a requirement for JIRA users to increase the size of the field either globally or for a particular custom field.
We will have a look at how to achieve this in the recipe.
Just like any other custom fields, the text area field is also rendered using Velocity templates. From the system-customfieldtypes-plugin.xml
file, we can find out that the location of the edit
template is templates/plugins/fields/edit/edit-textarea.vm
.
<customfield-type key="textarea" name="Free Text Field (unlimited text)" ............................................ <resource type="velocity" name="edit" location="templates/plugins/ fields/edit/edit-textarea.vm"/> ................................... </customfield...