how to create new release note templates

[Rudd]

I found this article, which almost explains what we want t do:

https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/creating-a-custom-release-notes-template-containing-release-comments/

However it tells how to replace the existing HTML and TXT templates with updated ones. 

We really want to create a second (or more) set of templates, leaving the defaults alone.  Each project in our hosted JIRA wants to do the release notes in a different way, so we need more than just the default choices.

[Adria Alonso · Accepted solution]

Depending on your needs and time, you can create a plugin in java adding packages and dependencies or edit the html file, (keep in mind you need to restart jira unless you've set template cache false at velocity.properties.xml. )

You could edit the releasenotes template in velocity and make your own project *'vms depending on $versionObj.projectId.

Depending on the project you could parse different VM's 

#parse("templates/jira/project/releasenotes...

I hope it helps you

[Rudd]

Thanks!  I'll try the #parse option. 

Something like this, I assume? 

#if($versionObj.projectId eq "MYPROJ")
#parse("templates/jira/project/releasenotes/myproj-releasenotes-html.vm")
#else
#parse("templates/jira/project/releasenotes/releasenotes-html.vm")
#end

[Adria Alonso]

I believe that if statement might be wrong.

You'll get used to velocity templates 

http://people.apache.org/~henning/velocity/html/ch05s03.html

I hope it helps,