Way to arrange custom fields as an array

[Reto Baumann]

Hi all

We have an issue type in our JIRA installation for which we need to collect efforts and reasons for a number of components - for each in the area of design, build and test. We end up with something such as:

Component / Design / Build / Test
Comp1 / 2PD / 4PD / 3PD
Comp2 / 3PD / 3PD / 3PD
Comp3 / 2PD / 3PD / 2PD

All the person days (PD) need to be filled in. Is there a way in JIRA to present this form in a way as indicated above? Or will JIRA always show this as a long list / lines of entry fields?

Thanks for the help
reto

[Norman Abramovitz]

This would be a hack, but it might work for you. You will be using css to reorganize your long list of fields into multiple lines. I did this for checkboxes and radiio buttons. It is a hack since I will need to reapply my changes when Jira gets upgraded. If you do not know html/css then find someone that does and have them make the changes. Also do this on a test system first since Jira needs to be stopped and restarted in the methodology that I used.

1) Determine the html tags, ids or classes you need to extend by looking at the html source page or using a html/css inspector tool.

2) Search through all the css files to see if you can find those tags, ids or classes being used. This will help determine which set of *.css files to modify.

2) Use the css float: left comand to cause your html objects to align left

3) Use the css 'clear: left' to cause your next html object to appear on the next line.

In 4.4.3 there are two files <basename>.css and <basename>_min.css. I updated both files since I did not figure out how the <basename>_min.css got generated in the timeframe I had to do the change in.

You will need to stop/start Jira to get the changed *.css files to be picked up and used. You might need to clear your local browser cache as well since somehow the css files are combined into a single css file.

You might need to set some widths as well to get your html objects to align into columns.