Is there a way to extend built-in Jira forms by developing a plug in ?

[emre nakilcioglu]

Hello,

Could a plug in development be done in order to add new text fields to the forms in Jira and enhance the capability of forms like Managing Versions ? Or are the plug-ins only used for to develop new and fresh capabilities ?

[tier-0 grump]

You can peretty much do most things with plugins - I'm not sure I understand what you mean exactly by enhancing capability. If you're trying to add extra information, then this is simply a case of adding to the view, then you can look at this tutorial that may help. If on the other hand you want to change the behaviour of ManageVersions then you need to provide a replacement action with a replacement view (of course the view might just need to extend the base view a little, so you don't need to start from scratch) and to do this you need the webwork plugin module. See https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Webwork+plugin+module for more information.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

"new and fresh capabilities" would include "adding text fields to versions".

I imagine you can do that with a plugin, but I've not tried it, or seen it done in a simple plugin. Yet.