How can I implement a custom renderer?

[Matthias Kuespert]

Hi,

I'm wondering how to implement a custom renderer for a multi-line text field in JIRA 4.4.4. Is this possible?

Which class should be extended and how should the renderer be declared in atlassian-plugin.xml?

Thanks,

Matthias

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

You cannot add a renderer but you can create a new custom field type and render it as you needed. If there is existing data, you will have to migrate it to the new field though.

See http://www.j-tricks.com/1/post/2010/08/custom-fields.html

[Matthias Kuespert]

Jobin,

thanks for the answer - I already feared I would end up to migrate all content to a new CFType.

Matthias

[Matthias Kuespert]

BTW: forgot to thank you for the great j-tricks site ... this info really helped when diving into JIRA.

Cheers,

Matthias

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Glad to know it is useful :)