how to modify the fullcontent view in JIRA 4.4.4?

Question

One of our client deliverables is in fullcontent view, and our team wants to 1) add a title on top of the first page (so client knows what report it is) and 2) to put the description right under the Summary.

I have look at the xml, and I have replace the previous-link velocity and put $title on top, that doesnt work.  Is there any other way to do this aside from opening the code and compile them to a WAR?

Thanks in advance!

Eva8 · Accepted Answer

To add a title, you have to get the source code and modified AbstractSearchRequestFullContentView.java file, create the header file (see  searchrequest-printable-header.vm as an example) and modified system-issueviews-plugin.xml so the class pick up the velocity file.  It's not pretty, but that's what we end up to do what we were requested.

To put the description, it's easier than I thought: modified the single-word.vm.  you ahve to break the table in half and then put the description section in between.