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A calculated Parent status calculated custom field type that represents the status of the issue's parent issue, if any, and is displayed as a String representing the status name. |
Adding a Parent Status custom field
To add a Parent Status 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
Parent Status 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
to create multiple contexts if you need to associate differently for particular projects or issue types. - Perform a re-index as prompted by JIRA.
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Search template
When creating a Parent Status custom field type, you can configure the Search template as Free text searcher
or Exact text searcher (Statistics
-compatible
) to be able to search issues either with a free text or the exact text for that custom field value. The Exact text searcher (Statistics-compatible)
searcher allows calculated text fields to be used in statistics gadgets. 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.
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Note that this field will not always reflect the status of the parent accurately in the search index, because when the parent issue's status changes, the sub-task is not re-indexed and thus its calculated fields are not updated in the index. However, the value will always be accurate on the View Issue screen. |
Customizing the display of the Parent Status custom field type value
You can now 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 Parent Status 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, aString
$formattedValue
: aString
formatted using the status macro,Status subtle true colour Green title Done - and other variables described on this page
For example:
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<font color="red"> $value$formattedValue </font> |
Displaying the Parent status custom field type on Transition and Edit screen
The Never show on Transition and Edit screens
option controls whether the Parent status 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 Parent status custom
field typefield value from other Groovy scripts
You can access this field using any of the following getters of the Issue interface
getAsStringget("Your custom field name") or get("customfield_xxxxx")
that returns aString
or
getAsString("Your custom field name")
or
getAsString("customfield_xxxxx")
that returnsa
representing a text.String