How can we change the name of custom field on View screen?

Question

For example: I have one custom field named "Test", I cannot add same field twice or more on the single screen. What i need is, Test field must be displayed more than two times. So i have added the field say "Test1" and displayed it on screen, but using javascript i have renamed it as "Test". This works on create and edit screen. But when the issue is created there i see the name Test1 instead of Test. SO can anybody help me on achieving this?

Thanks in advance :)

Michelle Larson · Answer

Can I ask you for the code you sued to change the name on the create and edit screen?

Dieter · Answer

If you already know how to change the DOM tree  write a speakeasy extension.
You just need to reference to your JS resource in a scoped-web-reource element described in atlassian-plugin.xml
There are examples at https://developer.atlassian.com/display/SPEAK/Speakeasy+Extension+Examples
Scoped-web-resource also works in a classical v2 plugin that could be the other choice.
You could also pack the other JS code from your field descriptions into this plugin and thus improve maintainability a lot

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Jira does not support putting a field on screen more than once, which is correct for data entry fields because you should never give a human two entry boxes for the same data item - field entry should be unique.

Could you give us a bit more detail on what you are trying to do, why, and what's going wrong?  Screenshots would be handy!