How do I allow a customfield of type checkboxes to show the unchecked boxes in an issue ?

Question

Hi everyone!

I'm currently working on a feature that require the creation of a new customfield of type checklist for a Jira Software plugin.

The idea is to programmatically create a customfield of type multiselect that propose a list of checkboxes to check. I'm having trouble to find the right methods to do so.

Is any of you already did something like that ? Or have any advice ?

UPDATE :

I managed to create the customfield I needed but if the checkboxes are not checked, the options doesn't appears in the issue (view.vm).

I'm currently searching in target/jira/webapp/secure/admin.views/customfields if I can change the code that hide the options if not checked.

Is someone did it already ? Any advice on how to change that so I can see my unchecked boxes ?

Thanks :-)

emilieL29 · Answer

Indeed it's a really good solution, but unfortunately we can't use any add-ons.

Tomas Gustavsson_mf0n45 · Answer

If you use the example above you will get exactly what you are asking for.

this is what it looks like in Jira

But you need to have  JSU - Suite Utilities for Jira, to be able to use this.

Create a field as below, and leave it empty.

Then add the field in a post function like below

Update Any Issue Field (JSU)

* Issue Field:  Decomission checklist
* Field Value: [{"id":"Check ","type":"todo"}, {"id":"Remove","type":"todo"}, {"id":"Set ","type":"todo"}, {"id":"Update ","type":"todo"}, {"id":"Remove from ","type":"todo"}, {"id":"Power off","type":"todo"}]

emilieL29 · Answer

@Tomas Gustavsson and @[deleted]first of all thank you for your reply.

What we want to do is create a new custom field of type Check list to show the Definition of done criteria.

The trouble with the native custom field of type checkbox is that you can't see the options that are not checked, and if so, you see them in a row, on one single line. So we had to develop our own custom field.

Here is an example of what we want to achieve :

For now I looked in the Atlassian API documentation and find the MultiSelectCFType class but I'm not sure how to use it to do what I want.

I hope it'll help for your advice.

Thanks