Combining Fields of different types in order to create complex data

[TorstenP]

Hi,

I'm totally new to Jira administration, so please forgive me if I'm asking "silly" questions. ;-)

Here is my first one:

In a custom screen, I want to make the jira-users to enter several person's names that are contact person for a certain subject. These persons are most likely not in the Jira-user-database.For this reason I can't make user of a "user-picker" field type.

Every person must be entered with name, phone, e-mail. I was thinking of a form-like construction like

Contact: name, surname, phone, e-mail

Substitute: name, surname, phone, e-mail

Responsible: name, surname, phone, e-mail

I thought, it might be possible to combine four text-fields for each contact person. Until now, I didn't find a way to achieve this. I only see the possibility of 12 single fields. But that's not very convenient...

Am I thinking in the wrong direction? Maybe somebody has a good idea for me?

Thanks and best regards.

Torsten

[TorstenP]

Hi,

thanks to everyone for replying.

But none of your proposals does match my requirement, I'm afraid. ...

Probably a plugin would do, what I need.

But: being a newbie to JIRA, programming a plugin by myself will surely not be the first thing I do. ;-) I'll keep an eye on that for later.

The "scripted fields"-plugin seems to be interesting for other purposes. So thanks for that. :-)

If nobody hasn't got an alternative idea, I will probably use three single text-fields for each contact and equip it with a label text, that informs the user about the data which has to be entered. Not very elegant, I know. But I prefer that rather than using 12 text-fields.

Best regards,

Torsten

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

You are right, it is not convininent to have 12 fields but unfortunately there isn't much more you can do with the existing field types.

You might want to write a plugin to create a 'Person' custom field which captures these parameters and also allows searching based on them. Worth the pain I would say!

[Jo-Anne MacLeod]

Take a look at the script runner plugin that Jamie has written. It has a 'scripted fields' information in there. You can probably do exactly what you want using that. I was just able to combine two text fields to make a third field. The scripted field is not editable, but it is searchable. Pretty slick!

https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/x/b4r0Aw

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

This would be interesting!