Which plugins are good examples of custom fields?

[MattS]

There are lots of plugins at http://plugins.atlassian.com and many of them have source code at http://studio.plugins.atlassian.com

Which ones do you think are good examples of creating a new custom field type?

[Nicholas Muldoon]

Hi Matt,

You may wish to take a look at GreenHopper. GreenHopper creates a 'GreenHopper Ranking' custom field, which may be of use if you are looking to do something similar.

Cheers,
Nicholas Muldoon

[Leandro Nunes]

Hi Matt,

I got a suggestion: JIRA Misc Custom Fields

This is extensively used when treating with custom fields. It allows you e.g. the Calculated Number Field. It is very used when handling with numbers and dates inside the custom field.

Hope it helps.

Leandro Nunes

[MattS]

For some reason I can't see JD's comment on this question.

He asked "Does it need to be an external plugin or can you look at the fields shipped with JIRA?"

I think either is good, so long as you can see the source.

~Matt

[Jeremy Largman]

The 'show comments' is a bit hard to see. We wanted to highlight Answers, not comments, but I think we made it harder than it should be. Jonathan's comment is on the right hand side under the question.

Check https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS-54, we should probably solve this.

[MattS]

Huh? I need to earn karma to add comments? What's the difference between an answer and a comment in this new system? It seems that now there are two places people have to look on a web page with no clear distinction between what will end up in them. That's not good.

[Jeremy Largman]

In general I like comments - for example the discussion we're having right now is better in comments than as an Answer. Check out the FAQ: https://answers.atlassian.com/faq/#comment

But, I agree, it's not ideal right now. I'm open to suggestions - this is in Beta! A couple things I could think of: 1) We can expand the comments by default, so you can see them more easily. 2) We could lower the karma required to comment, so it's more widely available.

Thoughts?

[MattS]

Sounds like the difference is that answers can be voted on and comments can't. I guess I'll need to get used to the idea of declaring something I write to be an "answer" which seems more authoritative than just a comment. I don't see that two kinds of replies helps organize a conversation, but I'm willing to be proved wrong.

~Matt

Ack. I replied as an answer instead of to the comment stream. More training needed but it was an easy mistake.

[brainicorn]

I'd suggest maybe showing a short snippet of the first comment by default with a "view more" link that would expand all comments.

Unrelated, are comments ever going to be threaded? ;)

[Jeremy Largman]

I converted your answer to a comment :).

If you're running into this, it's certain that others will as well. Our original intention for addressing this inevitable confusion was to make comments much less visible, but I'm now now sure it's a solution.

If your thoughts evolve on this let me know. It's a common feature for a lot of Q & A systems to have answers and comments. Hopefully it's a good thing overall.

PS - congrats on practical JIRA administration!

[brainicorn]

Does it need to be an external plugin or can you look at the fields shipped with JIRA?