JIRA and custom email template issue

ko yong

Hi all, I'm having what is surely a pretty trivial problem , but for the life of me I can't seem to sort it out. I'm modifying the issuecreated template for text emails trying to include the issue description. Everything I'm trying seems to end badly though. According to the documentation I found I should be able to just call $issue.getDescription() but that is throwing a bad reference in the logs. I don't need anything fancy, just the description right underneath the summary.

Any ideas?

ko yong

2011-10-31 11:35:50,605 WARN [velocity] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = getEncodedBodyFromContent [line 5,column 38] : $i
ssue.getDescription() is not a valid reference.
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.render(ASTReference.java:277)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:230)
at org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.evaluate(VelocityEngine.java:316)
at org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.evaluate(VelocityEngine.java:210)
at com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager.getEncodedBodyForContent(DefaultVelocityManager.java:137)
at com.atlassian.jira.mail.MailingListCompiler.addMailsToQueue(MailingListCompiler.java:219)
at com.atlassian.jira.mail.MailingListCompiler.sendLists(MailingListCompiler.java:134)
at com.atlassian.jira.mail.MailingListCompiler.sendLists(MailingListCompiler.java:109)
at com.atlassian.jira.mail.IssueMailQueueItem.send(IssueMailQueueItem.java:167)
at com.atlassian.mail.queue.MailQueueImpl.sendBuffer(MailQueueImpl.java:68)
at com.atlassian.jira.service.services.mail.MailQueueService.run(MailQueueService.java:23)
at com.atlassian.jira.service.JiraServiceContainerImpl.run(JiraServiceContainerImpl.java:61)
at com.atlassian.jira.service.ServiceRunner.execute(ServiceRunner.java:48)
at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:191)
at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:516)

Thats the stack trace.