default viewable by when commenting

[TothJ]

In Jira when you comment an issue you can choose who can view that comment (viewable by). Its All users by default. In one project ('THATPROJECT') I'd like to set the default to a specific group ('thatgroup'). In Jira 3.9 I achived this by editing the comment-edit.vm like this:

<option value="group:${textutils.htmlEncode($level)}"
##if ($level && $selected == "group:${level}")selected#end
#if (($commentLevel && $level && $commentLevel == $level) || (!$commentLevel && ($issue.project.key == "THATPROJECT") && $level == "thatgroup"))selected#end

>$textutils.htmlEncode($level)</option>

We plan to move to 4.4, so I started to play with rc1, I see comment-edit.vm changed a lot ( I guess in 4.3 its the same).

[TothJ · Accepted solution]

the macro moved to global.vm - you can do the exact same thing there in 4.4.

#if ($issue.project.key == "THATPROJECT")
#set($currentSelection = "thatgroup")
#end

[Dieter]

I think this can be done less intrusive with the Behaviours plugin: https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/JBHV/Miscellaneous+Behaviours+Examples#MiscellaneousBehavioursExamples-Setcommentvisibilitylevel It should also be possible by using some Javascript in the comment fields description to set the selected option of the field commentLevel.

[Dieter]

There is an jS example how you can set a predefined value in a select list at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/149573/check-if-option-is-selected-with-jquery-if-not-select-a-default

[Zahir MOUHOUBI]

Hello,

I am a begginer in velocity and I have the same problem.

I want to display by default the value "nobody" for all the issues.

I create a groub with no user called nobody, and i want to display it for all the issues.

Please help me.

[Deleted user]

I have same problem too and I couldn't understand your guide. Please explain it more.

[TothJ]

there is a VM file under web-inf/classes/templates/jira, global.vm. I edited this :

#set($currentSelection = "$i18n.getText('security.level.viewable.by.all')")
#if ($issue.project.key == "TST")
#set($currentSelection = "jira-developers")
#end

sorry I didnt see your question, yell if you need more explanation.