How to add new dialog on workflow transition in Jira

[Marcus Holt]

I want to make a jira plugin that works like a workflow validator, but instead of not allowing a transition if certain conditions are not met, I want to just bring up a warning dialog where the user can choose to continue or cancel the transition.

As far as I can tell this is not possible using a workflow validator, as that will only bring up an error if the conditions are not met.

I have written webwork plugins before, and that would seem like one likely possibility, but I don't know how it would be possible to intercept the workflow transition to perform the custom action.

I don't know if what I want to do is possible at all, and if it is, I don't know if a webwork plugin would be able to do it.

Are there any Jira experts out there who could point me in the right direction?

By the way, I am using Jira 4.2 if that makes any difference.

Thanks,
Marcus.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Why don't you create a new issue operation that does this? The issue operation should point to a webwork action which gives a warning and if continued, progressses the issue on the workflow behind the scenes.

[Marcus Holt]

Thanks for that answer. Now my question becomes, what is an issue operation? Is that something to do with webitems? If so, can you tell me what section I could put it in, or how to create a new appropriate section?

If it's not something to do with web items then I'm afraid I'm a bit lost. Is this something that is available in Jira 4.2 (which I should have mentioned is what I am using)?

[MattS]

Still sounds like a validator to me. The validator should throw an InvalidInputException with the information about what to change, and some field and value to set to pass the validator.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Looks like Marcus want to proceed without changing the input in some cases? i.e a warning, not an error? Not sure if I misread!

[Marcus Holt]

Yes Jobin you are right. I want to be able to indicate that the not-so-good condition exists (just like a validator), but allow the user to continue anyway if they are sure. I don't think I can use a validator to do this.