Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Custom fields (new beta uploaded)
As promised earlier, a new beta has been uploaded with support for custom fields. Please note that there are levels of custom field support. For best support, you must install a plugin for your JIRA server. This plugin is documented here. The installation is a simple file copy.
If you install the plugin, you will also see values for a few new fields relating to time estimates: remaining estimate, original estimate and time spent.
This is quite possibly the biggest release in terms of number of people asking for this feature so I am happy to put up a beta. Please give it a run through and let me know of any problems. If no problems are found, I will make a formal release next week.
If you install the plugin, you will also see values for a few new fields relating to time estimates: remaining estimate, original estimate and time spent.
This is quite possibly the biggest release in terms of number of people asking for this feature so I am happy to put up a beta. Please give it a run through and let me know of any problems. If no problems are found, I will make a formal release next week.
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Hi Sohail,
A couple of our team members installed the new beta version and can see a new field called "custom_0010" or something similar and none of the other new fields related to time estimates.
On the other hand, when I updated my version, I got the all the new fields plus all the custom fields. Any ideas why one person's installation would of this v1.0.1119 would behave differently than someone else's installation of the same version?
Cheers,
Mark
Hi Mark,
The reason is that you need to get your JIRA administrator to install an extra JIRA plugin which is located here:
http://next.worklogassistant.com/cgi-bin/download-latest?jira-plugin=1&os=java
The instructions are here:
http://next.worklogassistant.com/jira-plugin.html?download
If you need any additional information or have any issues installing it, please let me know.
Hi Sohail,
The same JIRA installation powers all users in our office, so I don't understand why it would work for some of us but not for others.
But I will look into the plugin you mentioned!
Cheers,
Mark
Hey Mark,
The reason is that JIRA's standard RPC API does not allow regular users to retrieve the names of custom fields. This is what the plugin linked above adds. So I suspect that those users for whom it works are in the jira-administrators group.
Hi Sohail,
That's exactly right! The only people who are able to see the custom fields in WLA are indeed people in the jira-administrators group.
I'll get that plugin installed and let you know the outcome!
Best,
Mark
Please let me know how it works out!
Hi Sohail
Got the plugin installed okay but still non-admins cannot enjoy the full functionality of custom field support in WLA! I've sent you an email separately.. hope we can figure this one out :)
Mark
Hi Mark,
I've responded to you in email as well. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. I'm sure we'll figure it out.
Hi Sohail,
Just wanted to share with all your faithful blog readers that you have successfully debugged my problem. You developed a new version of the JIRA plugin that supports WLA. We installed the new version and now all of our team members can enjoy the use of custom fields, even the non-administrators.
Thanks again for your support!
Mark
You're most welcome. Thanks for your patience while debugging this annoying problem!
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