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. |
To add a Status entered on Date/Time custom field type to your instance:
Issues - > Custom fields.
Add custom field
.Advanced
in the left panel.Status entered on Date/Time Field type
and select it.Next
.Create
Configure
and specify the status(es) and the order of status entered (explained below).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.
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)
To specify the status(es) to look for:
Configure
Edit Status(es).
Save.
You can also configure the custom field to look for the current status by selecting |
To specify the transition execution to look for;
Configure.
Latest
or Earliest
from the Which
field to capture the last or first status executed to the specified status(es).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;
Configure
Edit Velocity Template
.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 aboveFor example:
<div style="border: dashed"> $formattedValue </div> |
displays the date in a dashed box.
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.
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 a
Timestamp
getAsString("Your custom field name")
or
getAsString("customfield_xxxxx")
that returns a String
representing a date+time