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How do I display a different field name on the view screen?

Brian_jl34bg

Hello,

I currently have a project utilizing Jira Service Desk. For my service desk form, I've conveniently used the "Display Name" feature of Service desk to change my field name of "JSD Text Field Question 1" to "Business Email". To the users of portal, the form asks for their "Business Email". To the service desk team members that have to work the incoming tickets they only see "JSD Text Field Question 1" as the field name on the issue view screen. I've got about 15 questions on my form that share the problem so it's tough for the team members to know what questions the answers are answering. I hope this makes sense.

I have some experience with Scriptrunner and using the formField.setLabel() function but unfortunately that overrides my "Display Name" and does not show up on the view screen.

Any ideas on how to show the Service Desk Display Name on the issue view screen?

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- @Alexey Matveev I'm tagging you two since you seem to answer all the questions that I look up. Surely you must of come across this problem.

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Ilya Turov

First of all, behaviours don't work on view screen, only on create/edit/transition, so to achieve what you want you'd need something different than behaviours (probably something including js, but im not really sure).

Secondly, it feels like a weird thing to display different field name everywhere, why not to name it properly from the get-go?

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Ilya Turov

Secondly, it feels like a weird thing to display different field name everywhere, why not to name it properly from the get-go?

Brian_jl34bg

Hi Ilya, thank you for your reply. I just saw this now.

The reason why I don't want to name it properly from the get-go is because I want to limit the amount of custom fields I have. I currently have over 250 projects and our library of custom fields is growing and growing.

I want to reuse some custom fields for multiple projects so if I can re-label them that makes things easier.

mssanjay

Hi Brian, Were you able to resolve this behavior in view screen to show the Display Name instead of Custom field Name?

I totally agree to your point on Reusing the custom fields instead of creating many new fields.

Thanks

Sanjay

Anna Andersson_bs50cw

Hi!

We encountered the exact same issue, have you been able to resolve this?

Graham Twine

I think this is a totally pausable request given I have over 200 projects and some departments demand the impossible and I have silly requests link please rename Components to Projects.

If I look at this request from their point of view why can they not have the label they want.

Ok I am being a little over dramatic using Components but the principle of different labels is quite reasonable.

Alexey Sorochkin_4ndurh

Any solutions for this one?

Nbe

This workaround worked for me:

I used the "UI Fragments" module from ScriptRunner.

Example: I want to change the label of my custom field called "Name" (custom field ID 23456) to "Full Name".

I created a new UI Fragment of type Custom Web Panel and selected
atl.jira.view.issue.left.context as the location.
As the key, I simply entered a value (number or number + text) – I chose:
view_cf_23456
As the condition, I entered:

 jiraHelper<span>.project</span><span>.key</span> in <span>['XPROJ']</span>

This restricts the change to project XPROJ only.

Finally, as the provider, I entered:

writer.write(<span>"""
<script>
AJS.toInit(function(){
    var label = document.querySelector('label[for="customfield_23456"]');
    if (label) {
        label.textContent = "Full Name:";
    }
});
</script>
"""</span>)

Hope this helps!

Nbe

This workaround worked for me:

I used the "UI Fragments" module from ScriptRunner.

Example: I want to change the label of my custom field called "Name" (custom field ID 23456) to "Full Name".

I created a new UI Fragment of type Custom Web Panel and selected
atl.jira.view.issue.left.context as the location.
As the key, I simply entered a value (number or number + text) – I chose:
view_cf_23456
As the condition, I entered:
<strong>jiraHelper.project.key in ['XPROJ']</strong>

This restricts the change to project XPROJ only.

Finally, as the provider, I entered:

writer.write(""" <script> AJS.toInit(function(){ var label = document.querySelector('label[for="customfield_23456"]'); if (label) { label.textContent = "Full Name:"; } }); </script> """)

Hope this helps!

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