How do you build your JQL filters ? And presentation of my Plugin

[Deleted user]

Bonjour à tous, Hello everyone,

When you build a JQL filter, do you use customfield's id or customfield's name ?

I prefer write JQL with the ids because when I change the customfield name, my filter still work.

But I lose my understanding, when I look my JQL... I don't know to what these id refer to...

So I made a little plugin who "translate" JQL like this :

How do you feel about this :) ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Filters are aimed at the human users, so I think most of us use the field names, as they're clear on what they are for (assuming you have a good admin who forces good choices of field name).  Your users do not want, or need, to have to understand custom field ids.

The plugin is nice for those who create filters for others in systems where field names do get changed a lot.

But if you're changing field names a lot, it begs the question of "why"?  I've looked after installations with thousands of custom fields and the only time field names should really be changed is when doing system stuff like "sorting out the mess of thousands of fields" or "merging systems", or "splitting and getting better names for stuff"

[Deleted user]

You totally right, the filters are for human.

At the start, this plugin translate mostly filter's id, because most of my filter are like :

filter = "abc" AND filter = "xyz"

But these filters name are changing too.

Why these name are changing ? Because our application is still in dev, so we aren't fixed...