plug-in to automatically turn issue references in comments into hyperlinks

Gavin Smith5

We have just migrated from JIRA 4.1.2 to JIRA 4.4.3

Previously when a user mentioned an issue number in a comment it was automatically turned into a link back to that issue.

e.g. if you typed: "see issue: AB01-1234" as a comment 'AB01-1234' would be automatically turned into a hyperlink to that issue.

After migrating to JIRA 4.4.3 this doesn't happen anymore.

An external consultant carried out our initial JIRA installation, so I don't know if he installed a plug-in for this functionality, or it if is an option in JIRA somewhere.

Does anyone know how to get this working again?

Gavin Smith5

Fixed it!

Updated 'jira.projectkey.pattern' under 'Advanced Settings'

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA044/Configuring+Project+Keys

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA044/Configuring+JIRA+Options#ConfiguringJIRAOptions-advanced

Old setting: "([A-Z][A-Z]+)"

New setting: "([A-Z][A-Z0-9]+)"

The default setting for the Project Key regular expression did not match our project keys, as they contain numbers.

Changing the 'jira.projectkey.pattern' setting fixed the problem.