Get issueID in JavaScript in Project Screen (viewing issue)

Christian_Schönert

Hello to all,

 

I am having a problem where I have no idea where to find a solution or what to search for, so I'm asking this Question. A little context ahead:

I'm writing a plugin that shows some additional information on the ViewIssueScreen. Placing it right on the standard viewing screen for issues (like eg. structure plugin etc.). I use some velocity and JavaScript to postprocess and display some informations. To do that I'm using my own REST Resource which requires the issueID to work with. I could also use the issueKey, but at this point this doesn't change anything or help.

So I found this https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/Read-current-issue-id-with-javascript/qaq-p/481560 to get to the issueID (or key) with

 var issueID = JIRA.Issue.getIssueId();
 var issueKey = AJS.$("meta[name='ajs-issue-key']").attr("content");

This all works fine up until this:

 

When I go to the project of the issue, where all issues that belong to it are listed on the left, and the issue clicked is displayed in a screen right side next to it, it can't retrieve the id or key anymore. It just gives back null and undefined.

How can I get the issueID or issueKey within the ViewIssueScreen where it doesn't matter if its a subpage or not?

Mauricio Karas

Hello, Christian. Thanks for reaching out to the Atlassian Community!

I've tried getting the issue key in the issue navigator with the AJS.$("#key-val").text() command but the same behavior happened, it returned null. After some search I was able to find out that it might be because the callback is pointing to the first HTML that rendered which doesn't have the class with the "key-val" id, the problem being the inline editing.

This other question from the Developer Community is describing something similar: Parts of javascript not working in issue navigator

One of the answers suggested is listening to a Jira JS event and then executing the code inside the listener function. I've created the following code and it seems to be working for the purpose of retrieving the issue key.

JIRA.bind(JIRA.Events.ISSUE_REFRESHED, function() {
    var key = AJS.$("#key-val").text();
    console.log("Issue Key: " + key);
});

There's further information on extending the inline editing in Jira is this page: Extending inline edit for JIRA plugins

Kind regards,
Maurício Karas