Combining Fields of different types in order to create complex data

Question

Hi,

I'm totally new to Jira administration, so please forgive me if I'm asking "silly" questions. ;-)

Here is my first one:

In a custom screen, I want to make the jira-users to enter several person's names that are contact person for a certain subject. These persons are most likely not in the Jira-user-database.For this reason I can't make user of a "user-picker" field type.

Every person must be entered with name, phone, e-mail. I was thinking of a form-like construction like

Contact:   name, surname, phone, e-mail

Substitute:  name, surname, phone, e-mail

Responsible:   name, surname, phone, e-mail

I thought, it might be possible to combine four text-fields for each contact person. Until now, I didn't find a way to achieve this. I only see the possibility of 12 single fields. But that's not very convenient...

Am I thinking in the wrong direction? Maybe somebody has a good idea for me?

Thanks and best regards.

Torsten

TorstenP · Answer

Hi,

thanks to everyone for replying.

But none of your proposals does match my requirement, I'm afraid. ...

Probably a plugin would do, what I need.

But: being a newbie to JIRA, programming a plugin by myself will surely not be the first thing I do. ;-) I'll keep an eye on that for later.

The "scripted fields"-plugin seems to be interesting for other purposes. So thanks for that. :-)

If nobody hasn't got an alternative idea, I will probably use three single text-fields for each contact and equip it with a label text, that informs the user about the data which has to be entered. Not very elegant, I know. But I prefer that rather than using 12 text-fields.

Best regards,

Torsten

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Answer

You are right, it is not convininent to have 12 fields but unfortunately there isn't much more you can do with the existing field types.

You might want to write a plugin to create a 'Person' custom field which captures these parameters and also allows searching based on them. Worth the pain I would say!

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Answer

This would be interesting!