Adding guidelines as text to JIRA tabs

[Lars Polling]

I would like to have the ability to add guidelines as text blocks on the top of different tabs while creating/editing an issue in JIRA. More or less identical when creating a Bug in the official JIRA project.

[Renjith Pillai · Accepted solution]

Add custom fields of type 'Message Custom Field (for edit)' per tab and what ever HTML guidelines that you want to provide to the user in this field.

sample content below.

<div class="infoBox">
<li>Please fill blah blah blah.
<li>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
</div>

[Lars Polling]

The 'Message Custom Field (for edit)' doesn't seem to be a standard custom field in JIRA. How can this be made available in the field type list? Only through the Toolkit Plugin, since this is a rather large implementation for such a small requirement?

[Renjith Pillai]

https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/5142

[Renjith Pillai]

Other workarounds, which may not so so good

1. Have the guidelines split for every field and add them as description for the field
2. Have an html link in the description part of the fields that opens a Wiki page with the guidelines

[Renjith Pillai]

Btw, are you looking for HTML guidelines in the Dashboard?

[Renjith Pillai]

Workflow step means, while viewing the issue, then you can use Message Custom Field for View.

[Lars Polling]

Any alternative solutions? Since installing a whole plugin for only a rather small requirement (one custom field type) is somewhat overdone.

[Fringe Technology]

Not sure what you mean by 'on top of different tabs'. To better help answer your question, are you using custom fields? If so, the 'Field Description' that you supply when configuring a custom field is displayed beneath the data entry field when entering new issues and editing existing issues, but not when browsing issues.

[Lars Polling]

Thanks. I'm aware of this option, but the objective is to make generic information available to the users like the purpose of the tab or guidelines on the workfow step the user is currently in, or even link to Confluence for user manual information.