Chapter 3. Working with Custom Fields

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Writing a simple custom field
  • Custom field searchers
  • Dealing with custom fields on an issue
  • Programming custom field options
  • Overriding validation of custom fields
  • Customizing change log value
  • Migrating from one custom field type to another
  • Making custom fields sortable
  • Displaying custom fields on subtask columns on parent issue
  • User and date fields
  • Adding custom fields to notification mails
  • Adding help text for a custom field
  • Removing the "none" option from a select field
  • Making the custom field project importable
  • Changing the size of a text area custom field

Introduction

For an issue tracking application, the more details you can provide about an issue, the better. JIRA helps by giving us ...

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