Custom Fields

Basic structure of custom fields

A base class which implements the com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.CustomFieldType interface. It encapsulates all logic dealing with values of a Custom Field, such as creation, update and removal of values, storage & retrieval of defaults and validation of values (also passes parameters to the velocity context for creating views). Normally these extend JIRAs own custom field types and just override what is needed.
Optional helper classes passed to the velocity context
Velocity templates for creating the view markup for clients
optional css and javascript
customfield-type declaration in the atlassian-plugin.xml

Custom Field Configurations

JIRA does not have a mechanism for providing arbitrary configurations for custom fields from the UI. JIRA does however contain a mechanism for adding options to select type custom fields value lists. We use these options to configure some of our custom fields. The options are given as a key=value pairs and then parsed to a HashMap with com.eduix.jira.plugin.util.OptionsUtil. There are other kind of uses for the options as well where the configurations don't follow the key=value format

Custom field types

Multiple Outage Custom Field

Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.MultipleOutageCFType
View helpers	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.helpers.MultipleOutageViewHelper generates markup for the outage tables
Javascript and css	Inline javascript for editing outage values in templates/jira/customfield/edit-multipleOutage.vm
Data format	Plain text where single outages are separated by char ' \|' and each outage contains a start, an end and an optional message separated by char ';'. The dates are converted with com.eduix.jira.plugin.util.DateUtil and there is a utility com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.helpers.MultipleOutageHelper which can convert the plain text to a list of Outage objects.
Other dependencies	jQuery

History Text Custom Field

Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.HistoryTextCFType
View helpers	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.helpers.HistoryTextViewHelper generates markup for the history
Javascript and css
Data format	Plain text with single entries separated by string '@@'. Every entry contains full name of the user, input date and text content each separated by string ";-;". The dates are converted with com.eduix.jira.plugin.util.DateUtil
Other dependencies	none

Scope Selection Custom Field

Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.ScopeSelectCFType
View helpers	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.helpers.ScopeViewHelper
Javascript and css	Inline javascript for handling the value testing and updating to the form input when the selection is changed
Data format	Plain text
Other dependencies	none

Horizontal Fields Custom Field

Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.HorizontalFieldsCFType
View helpers	*com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.helpers.HorizontalFieldsViewHelper handles the custom field config options
Javascript and css	Inline javascript to call loaded javascript /templates/extra/js/tts.js and css loaded from tempates/extra/css/horizontal.css. Also depends on YUI
Data format	Field value is not used, only the options
Other dependencies	YUI

Field Hider Custom Field

Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.FieldHiderCFType
View helpers	*com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.helpers.FieldHiderViewHelper handles the custom field config options
Javascript and css	Inline javascript to call loaded javascript /templates/extra/js/tts.js. Also depends on YUI
Data format	Field value is not used, only the options
Other dependencies	YUI

Total Outage Custom Field

Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.TotalOutageCFType
View helpers	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.TotalOutageViewHelper formats the outage value
Javascript and css
Data format	Decimal number
Other dependencies

Related Issues Custom Field

Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.RelatedIssuesCFType
View helpers	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.helpers.DefaultViewHelper
Javascript and css	Inline javascript to query the related issues servlet
Data format	Field value is not used, only the options
Other dependencies	Jquery com.eduix.jira.plugin.servlet.RelatedIssuesServlet generates the actual list of related issues depends on the Related Issues Service

Program flow related to dependencies

Notify Management Custom Field

Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.NotifyManagementCFType
View helpers	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.NotifyManagementViewHelper
Javascript and css	Inline javascript
Data format	Plain text
Other dependencies

Dynamic Value Picker Custom Field

Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.DynamicValuePickerCFType
View helpers	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.helpers.DynamicValuePickerViewHelper
Javascript and css	Inline javascript to open the value picker popup
Data format
Other dependencies	com.atlassian.jira.web.action.DynamicPickerAction the value picker popup which depends on EditGrid com.eduix.jira.plugin.servlet.AddWordToLexiconServlet adds values to the workbooks in EditGrid

Program flow related to dependencies

When editing values:

When submitting values:

Vendor Messaging Custom Field

Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.VendorMessagingCFType
View helpers	com.eduix.jira.plugin.customfield.helpers.DefaultViewHelper
Javascript and css	Inline javascript to query the message log and message preview. Stylesheet /templates/extra/css/vendor-messaging.css
Data format	Field value is not used
Other dependencies	PHP component to store/retrieve message log com.eduix.jira.plugin.servlet.VendorMessagingServlet sends vendor message emails depends on EditGrid which contains vendor emails and message templates com.eduix.jira.plugin.servlet.VendorMessagingPreviewServlet creates vendor message previews depends on EditGrid for message templates

Program flow related to dependencies

Workflow plugins

Basic structure of workflow plugins

Workflow components need a Factory object to create and configure the workflow function or validator and a class that contains the business logic for the actual workflow operation.

Workflow post functions

Set Customfield to first matching user group post function

Factory	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.WorkflowSetMatchingGroupFunctionPluginFactory
Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.function.SetMatchingGroupPostFunction2

Calculate total outage post function

Factory	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.WorkflowCalculateTotalOutageFunctionPluginFactory
Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.function.CalculateTotalOutagePostFunction

Autofill problem start and end post function

Factory	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.WorkflowAutofillProblemStartAndEndFunctionPluginFactory
Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.function.AutofillProblemStartAndEndPostFunction

Copy Field post function

Factory	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.WorkflowCopyFieldFunctionPluginFactory
Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.function.CopyFieldPostFunction

Auto-populate Next Action Due Date post function

Factory	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.WorkflowAutoPopulateDueDateFunctionPluginFactory
Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.function.AutoPopulateDueDatePostFunction

Fill Empty Next Action Due Date post function

Factory	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.WorkflowFillEmptyDueDateFunctionPluginFactory
Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.function.FillEmptyDueDatePostFunction

Timestamp post function

Factory	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.WorkflowTimestampFunctionPluginFactory
Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.function.TimestampPostFunction

Clear field values post function

Factory	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.WorkflowClearFieldValuesFunctionPluginFactory
Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.function.ClearFieldValuesPostFunction

Copy Updated Field Value post function

Factory	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.WorkflowCopyUpdatedFieldFunctionPluginFactory
Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.function.CopyUpdatedFieldFunction

Fire Event If Assignee Changed post function

Factory	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.WorkflowFireEventIfAssigneeChangedFunctionPluginFactory
Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.function.FireEventIfAssigneeChangedPostFunction

Workflow validators

Singular Component Validator

Factory	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.WorkflowNoInputValidatorPluginFactory
Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.validator.SingularComponentValidator

Next Action Duetime Validator

Factory	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.WorkflowNextActionDuetimeValidatorPluginFactory
Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.validator.NextActionDuetimeValidator

Problem Start/End Validator

Factory	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.WorkflowProblemValidatorPluginFactory
Class	com.eduix.jira.plugin.workflow.validator.ProblemValidator

Custom Fields

Basic structure of custom fields

Custom Field Configurations

Custom field types

Multiple Outage Custom Field

History Text Custom Field

Scope Selection Custom Field

Horizontal Fields Custom Field

Field Hider Custom Field

Total Outage Custom Field

Related Issues Custom Field

Program flow related to dependencies

Notify Management Custom Field

Dynamic Value Picker Custom Field

Program flow related to dependencies

Vendor Messaging Custom Field

Program flow related to dependencies

Workflow plugins

Basic structure of workflow plugins

Workflow post functions

Set Customfield to first matching user group post function

Calculate total outage post function

Autofill problem start and end post function

Copy Field post function

Auto-populate Next Action Due Date post function

Fill Empty Next Action Due Date post function

Timestamp post function

Clear field values post function

Copy Updated Field Value post function

Fire Event If Assignee Changed post function

Workflow validators

Singular Component Validator

Next Action Duetime Validator

Problem Start/End Validator

Portlets and gadgets