How to export Jira issue data with ProForma Lite form content? (Better PDF Exporter for Jira?)

Trudy P Claspill

Hello community friends,

We have an environment of Jira 9.12.22 / JSD 5.12.22. We have added ProForma Lite to it. We are looking for a solution to export both Jira issue fields and the content of an attached ProForma Lite form in a single export format.

There has been a suggestion that Better PDF Exporter for Jira DC could potentially do it, but the suggester may have been thinking of the Groovy scripting component of Better PDF Exporter leveraging the ProForma REST API, but that REST API is not available in ProForma Lite.

 

Aron Gombas _Midori_

@Trudy P Claspill I am a developer working the Better PDF Exporter app.

First, a few notes.

Jira Cloud

If you were on Cloud, then Jira Service Management forms can be exported with other work item details to PDF! (This integration is available. Proforma was acquired by Atlassian, and it is now part of the JSM package.) It would result in a PDF document like this:

Jira Data Center

On Data Center, you could absolutely implement the integration with writing a Groovy script. Unfortunately, if the REST API is not available, then this option will not work.

But, still on Data Center, there is another option!

Because the Groovy script runs on the same JVM as the hosting Jira and the Proforma app, you could try to access the Proforma components directly and use those as a sort of "internal API". See this documentation section that illustrates this approach with the Jenkins app.

If you can find a Java component that:

1. is available through the plugin system / OSGi using this approach
2. returns the form fields/values

...then you should be able to do it with reasonable efforts!

In fact, a part of the integrations on DC is implemented with this approach.