How do you customize the sign up page in Jira?

[joshua kugler]

I have found this page: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/How+to+Customise+the+Login+Gadget

But we have a need to customize the sign-up page. Corporate wants us to provide a link + give a statement about privacy, and the nefarious things we're going to do with their name and e-mail address. Is there a way to customize that screen?

[joshua kugler · Accepted solution]

You can edit this file: /atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/jira/web/action/JiraWebActionSupport.properties Look for properties beginning with 'signup." and edit those. In our case, we needed to edit the signup.desc property. Then restart Jira.

NOTE: you'll probably have to do this every time you upgrade Jira.

[Mihai Nitu]

Hello,

I know this is an old discussion, but just in case someone else would need to to this, here are some additional info about how to get it done in JIRA 7:

1. In order to get the changes to /atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/jira/web/action/JiraWebActionSupport.properties visible on your page you must be using the default language - it is  "English (United Kingdom) [default]".

Otherwise you would need some more tweaking... like altering your language package/add-on ( there are some suggestions on that here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Edit-the-sign-up-page/qaq-p/55720 )

2. Indeed, it is not recommended to edit the template directly, but if you really need to add/edit something from the atlassian-jira/views/signup.jsp page (and make it visible) you will find some valuable info here:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-59587

As also mentioned above, these changes need to be done again after each JIRA upgrade.

Best Regards,

Mihai

[EddieW]

I think some custom development would be needed to accomplish this. Are you hosting your own instance? You could edit the template directly (not suggested) or write a plugin that could hook into the desired screen.

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Web+Panel+Plugin+Module