How to remove / relocate the "People" and "Dates" widgets from Jira issues

[Tom Saunders]

Does anybody have a method to move the "people" and "dates" widgets from the issues page in Jira? These widgets take up a lot of real estate on the right side of the issues page. If they were listed across the top or had a smaller a smaller ares to themselves in the right that would be great. This can be seen when viewing any issue in Jira.

Thanks!

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Removing the following lines from viewissue.jsp will hide them:

<ww:property value="/peopleHtml" escape="false"/>
<jsp:include page="/includes/panels/issue/view_dates.jsp" />

Showing the fields under custom fields is a bit more tricky. Check out this thread for some details.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Well I just realized that you can put the above two lines wherever you want to display those fields. So if you pu them under description, i.e. below:

<%@ include file="/includes/panels/issue_descriptiontable.jsp" %>

the date and people fields will appear there!

[Linda Walmer]

Did anyone figure out a solution to this?  JIRA's screen real estate use and inflexibility is astonishing.

[Tom Saunders]

Thanks for all the help with this, I am setting up a test copy of out prod system to try them out.

[David at David Simpson Apps]

Maybe you could play with a little JavaScript. For example, this...

<script>
  AJS.$('#secondary .content').children().appendTo('#primary .content');
  AJS.$('#primary').css('width','100%');
</script> 

...will append the content of the right hand column to the end of the left had column.

To quickly try this out, you could browse to...

JIRA <tt>Administration | Options & Settings | Announcement Banner</tt>

...and paste the code.

Of course you could do fancier stuff like create some buttons in the command-bar and move the content into an AJS.Dialog or similar.

[Markus Lepper]

Hi Tom,

a bit of info you could find in this related answers:

Is it possible to edit the issue view screen layout?

JIRA Date & People Field Position on Screen

You might need to touch CSS and several velocity templates to get the desired view. Jira updates will need reworking...

BR, Markus