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A Status entered by user custom field type represents a 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 contexts 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. |
Specifying the order of selected status(es) to look for
To specify the order of the selected status(es) that the field should 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
field to capture the last or first status entered order respectively.
Customizing the display of the Status entered by User custom field 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 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.
Display of the Status entered by user custom field type on Transition and Edit screens
Now you can control the display of the Status entered by user custom field on the transition and edit screens. If you select this option, the field will not be visible on the Edit and Transition screens, even if added to them.
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.