A Status entered on Date/Time custom field type represents the date+time the issue has been last (or first) moved to the specified status and is displayed as date+time. It is a read-only field.
Adding a Status entered on Date/Time custom field type
To add a Status entered on Date/Time 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 on Date/Time 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.
Search template
When creating a Status entered on Date/Time custom field type, you can configure the Search template as Date range picker
to be able to search issues within a date/time range of values for that custom field and it can be used in statistics dashboard gadgets (see below). 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.
Statistics compatible searchers
Date range picker with statistics compatibility are searchers that allow calculated date/time fields to be used in statistics gadgets. Date range picker (Statistics by day),
andDate range picker (Statistics by month),
Date range picker (Statistics by quarter),
searchers display the field in statistics gadgets by day, month, quarter and year respectively.
Date range picker (Statistics by year)
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.
You can also configure the custom field to look for the current status by selecting current status
in the configuration.
Specifying the transition execution to look for
To specify the 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 theWhich
field to capture the last or first status executed to the specified status(es).
Customizing the display of the Status entered on Date/Time 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 on Date/Time 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:
$value
: the raw field value, a Date object$formattedValue
: the field value formatted according to the field configuration above- and other variables described on this page
For example:
<div style="border: dashed"> $formattedValue </div>
displays the date in a dashed box.
Displaying the Status entered on Date/Time custom field type on Transition and Edit screen
The Never show on Transition and Edit screens
option controls whether the Status entered on Date/Time 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 on Date/Time custom field value 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 aTimestamp
getAsString("Your custom field name")
or
getAsString("customfield_xxxxx")
that returns aString
representing a date+time