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A Status entered by user custom field type represents a user represents the user who last (or first) moved the issue to the specified status and is displayed as a String representing the user display name. It is a read-only field. |
Adding a Status entered by User custom field type
To add a Status entered by User custom field type 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
Status entered by user custom Field type
and select it. - Click on
Next
. - Provide a name for the custom field
- You can optionally provide a description for 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 specify the status(es) and the order of status entered (explained below). - You can create multiple contexts if you need to associate different status(es) with particular projects or issue types.
- Perform a re-index as prompted by JIRA.
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Search template
When creating a Status Entered by User custom field type, 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 status(es) to look for
To specify the status(es) 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 Status(es).
- Select the status(es).
- Click on
Save.
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You can also configure the custom field to look for the current status by selecting |
Specifying the
order of selected status(es) totransition execution to look for
To specify the order of the selected status(es) that the field should transition execution to look for;
- Locate the custom field on the Custom Fields administration page.
- Click on the cog wheel and click on
Configure.
- Select either
Latest
orEarliest
from theStatus order
Which
field to capture the last or first status entered order respectivelytransition executed to the specified status(es).
Customizing the display of the Status entered by User custom field value on the issue detail view
You can define a velocity template that will return the Html representation of the calculated custom field on the issue detail view. Leave it empty to use the default template.
To select a format for the Status entered by user 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:
$value
: the raw field value, the ApplicationUser object.$formattedValue
: a String representing the display name of the user- and other variables described on this page
For example:
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<div style="border: dashed">
$formattedValue
</div> |
displays the formatted value of the field with a dashed border.
Customizing the display of the Status entered by User custom field value on the search list view
You can define a velocity template that will return the Html representation of the calculated custom field on the search list view.
Leave it empty to use the default template.
To select a format for the Status entered by user 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 List View Velocity Template
. - Input the template.
- Click on
Save.
You can use the following Velocity variables in the template:
$value
: the raw field value, the ApplicationUser object.$formattedValue
: a String representing the display name of the user- and other variables described on this page
For example:
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<div style="border: dashed">
$formattedValue
</div> |
displays the formatted value of the field with a dashed border.
Displaying the Status entered by user custom field type on Transition and Edit screens
The Never show on Transition and Edit screens
option controls whether the 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 Status entered by user custom field type 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.