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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

Changing the size of a text area custom field


As we have discussed before, 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 of JIRA users to increase the size of the field, either globally, or for a particular custom field.

How to do it...

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="Text Field (multi-line)"    ............................................ 
    <resource type="velocity" name="edit" location="templates/plugins/ 
    fields/edit/edit-textarea.vm"/> 
................................... 
</customfield-type> 

If we need to increase the size...