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A calculated Last Field Value change Author custom field type that represents the author of the last modification made to a field and is displayed as a String representing the display name of the user. It is a read-only field. |
Adding a Last Field Value Change Author custom field
To add a Last Field Value Change Author custom field to your instance:
- Log in to JIRA as an administrator.
- Go to the Administration icon and click on it.
- Click on
Issues - > Custom fields.
- Click on
Add custom field
. - Click on
Advanced
in the left panel. - Locate
Last Field Value Change Author Field
and select it. - Click on
Next
. - Provide a name for the custom field
- You can optionally provide a description of the custom field.
- Click on
Create
- Associate the custom field to the appropriate screens.
- Locate the custom field in the Custom fields administration page and click on the cog wheel.
- Click on
Configure
and and specify the field to look for (explained below). - You can create multiple contexts if you need to associate different fields with particular projects or issue types.
- Perform a re-index as prompted by JIRA.
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Search template:
When creating a Last Field Value Change Author custom field, you can configure the Search template as User Picker & Group Searcher
to be able to search issues for a user in that custom field. If you select “None” for the searcher, then you won’t see any reference to this field in the Issue Navigator search fields. Note that changing a custom field searcher requires a re-index.
Specifying the field to look for
To specify the field to look for:
- Locate the custom field on the Custom Fields administration page.
- Click on the cog wheel and click on
Configure
- Click on
Edit Field to look for.
- Select a field from the
Field
drop-down. - Click on
Save.
Customizing the display of the Last Field Value Change Author custom field type value
You can define a velocity template that will return the Html representation of the calculated custom field. Leave it empty to use the default template.
To select a format for a Last Field Value Change Author custom field type value:
- Locate the custom field on the Custom Fields administration page.
- Click on the cog wheel and click on
Configure
- Click on
Edit Velocity Template
. - Input the template.
- Click on
Save.
You can use the following Velocity variables in the template:
$value
: the raw field value, anApplicationUser
object.$formattedValue
: String representing the display name of the user- and other variables described on this page
For example:
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<font color="redorange"> $formattedValue - $value.emailAddress </font> |
Displaying the Last Field Value Change Author custom field type on Transition and Edit screen
The Never show on Transition and Edit screens
option controls whether the calculated Single-user custom field can appear on transition and edit screens. If you select this option, the field will not be visible on any Edit or Transition screen, even if it is added to the screen.
Accessing the Last Field Value Change Author custom field from other Groovy scripts
You can access this field using any of the following getters of the Issue interface
get("Your custom field name") or get("customfield_xxxxx")
that returns aApplicationUser
getAsString("Your custom field name")
or
getAsString("customfield_xxxxx")
that returns aString
representing a username.