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JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Jobin Kuruvilla
Book Image

JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Jobin Kuruvilla

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. With the new version of JIRA, you can create your own JIRA plugins and customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI easier than ever. JIRA Development Cookbook , Third Edition, is a one-stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. This book starts with recipes about simplifying the plugin development process followed by recipes dedicated to the plugin framework. Then, you will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. You will also learn how to program and customize workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. With so much data spanning different projects, issues, and so on, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. At the end of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items; communicate with JIRA via the REST APIs; and work with the JIRA database.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Adding custom fields to notification e-mails


One of the main features of JIRA is its capability to send notifications to selected people on selected events! It is often a requirement for JIRA users to customize these notifications, mainly to add more content in the form of custom fields.

If you understand velocity templates, adding custom fields to notification e-mails is a cakewalk, as we will see in this recipe.

Getting ready

You should know the custom field id that you need to add into the template. The id can be found in the URL that you see when you hover over the Edit operation on the custom field in the administration page.

How to do it...

Let us have a look at adding a custom field, X, into a notification e-mail when an issue is updated. The following are the steps:

  1. Identify the template that needs to be updated. For each event in JIRA, you can find the template associated with it in the email-template-id-mappings.xml, residing under the WEB-INF/classes folder.

    In this case, the event is...