I'm new to Jira and have big problem with creating tables inside my testing plan. Using pipes, double pipes, etc. to build the table markup is really time consuming.
So, I saw here, that actually there's a RTF editor with visual table building in Confluence (which should be used in JIRA right? ) : http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Tables+in+the+Rich+Text+Editor
However the textareas in my Jira installation are just plain text fields and can't figure out how to turn them into the the nice RTF areas shown in the URL above...
You have to go to Admin, Field Configurations and tell JIRA to use the Wiki Renderer for fields such as Description and Environment.
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I have several dashboards in JIRA and want to create a central one where there is a filter or gadget that will display links to the other dashboards. Is this possible?
You may save all of these dashboards' URLs and show them inside a gadget in your main dashboard.
Let's say one of your "other dashboard"s link is: your-jira-url.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10000
Then, you can add a new gadget (like Text plugin which can show HTML) and add following HTML in that gadget:
Link to the other dashboard
However, Text plugin is not enabled default because of the security issues. You may find the details on Atlassian documentation.
Also, as an alternative, you may try HTML for Jira plugin, or you may find some free alternatives from Marketplace.
I found a way to accomplish this. You can embed it in a issue ie the description field and use a filter to display that field of that issue
I know there are some questions regarding this, but didn't get the right answer yet.
I am trying to use Confluence publisher plugin in Jenkins to send build information (Logs, artifacts...) to wikiD page. I can attach artifacts and write plain text to the wiki page. But I'm trying to update/append/prepend wiki page table with build info. I think I might be able to achieve this by using macros but not sure how to use that for data in tables??
does anyone here know how to achieve that?
Sure. I can mention how i did it. There might be different way others will do the same thing.
So, in Confluence, either create a Blank macros as mentioned on Confluence-publisher-plugin wiki and in Jenkins, use "Wiki Markup Replacements" options in plugin configuration to direct your Contents.
OR other option is what i did on mine, was to create table in the wiki and use Cell header ( |cell1||cell2|... ) as Marker Token. then select plain text option, where you enter all the contents that you want to be published in your Wiki.
I asked the following two questions in JIRA Answers, but got no reply so far:
Question 1
Question 2
Basically my question is what's the best way to make changes in a JIRA production environment.
This will be rather general answer, but this is how I do it:
I avoid modifying JIRA production files. When I need it (e.g. mail templates), I keep them under source control along with plugin in 'deploy' directory which mimics JIRA directory structure so it is possible to grap it and deploy it with copy&paste
I frequently use javascript to decorate screens with custom behavior
Schema changes, custom fields and other meta data are all created in code
Keep everything in plugin and leverage plugin versioning system. Plugin should be able to check whether there is everything it needs and when not it should be able to upgrade incrementally.
For JIRA configuration - this is the same, plugin should check whether it has everything it needs, but you can also keep configuration changes in some excel file and have it under source control
My aproach is to have everything possible in source control and modify production files only when absolutely necessary. Do as much in code as possible.
I would like to use Jenkins to update specific cells in a table created in Wiki.
I see that i can use the "publish to confluence" plugin, but i am not sure how i can mark the place that i want to update. The plugin help is talking about token - what are those tokens?
In the plugin, "tokens" are wiki text. They can be hidden Confluence Macros or even visible text. The macros work best because they are hidden from the normal reader. I use raw text matches on our Confluence because our permissions don't allow those macros. Either one works.
I should not that my experiences are with Confluence 3.x. Confluence 4.x apparently changes a number of things that have an impact on how this plugin works.
The plugin's page has a comprehensive list with examples and differences between 3.x and 4.x:
Confluence Publisher Plugin
I am looking to capture values from the 'affected version' field of New Bug screen along with the project name and dynamically add these values to the table in my new screen, which was created using a velocity template. I have recently checkout an uploaded the plugin WebWork tutorial plugin but I am having difficulty working out how to utilise this as I very new to JIRA.
As always grateful for any help.
The base class for all custom fields in JIRA is
http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/latest/com/atlassian/jira/issue/customfields/CustomFieldType.html
and it has a method getVelocityParameters that can be used to add variables to the context used in velocity templates, e.g. $mynewvariable. I'd suggest poking around the source looking at some of the CFType.java files for examples of how this can work.
~Matt