Is there a way to add somthing like "Your role" in a jira issue to an email?

[Jasen Sparacino]

We have more roles here than just Assignee and Reporter. When we recieve notifications it would be nice to have that included. We have a custom field that alows people to own issues. Also, if I am just a watcher on an issues it would be helpful to know that as well in the notification. We also have a "lead". Sometimtes it't not always clear why you recieve a notification so to be able to add that would be great. In the past we did with source code modification but we are trying to get away from that.

[Jasen Sparacino · Accepted solution]

We had to make a plugin and mod the templates to get the info we wanted.

[Danilo Conrad]

Hi Jasen,

It seems you would like something similar to what was asked on the related post below:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/45630/add-reason-for-email-to-jira-notification

Unfortunately, this is not possible in JIRA by default, and requires some kind of customization (either by modifying the velocity templates or via code) to be achieved.

Cheers,

Danilo

[Teck-En]

It's not possible without editing the velocity mail template used by JIRA: https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Adding+Custom+Fields+to+Email

[Jasen Sparacino]

I get that part but how do I get the template to figure out what your role is? For instance, if my role in the issue was "watcher" how do I get that to show in the email as "Your Role: Watcher" as oppsed to say a custom field value like, Owner. In which case it would say "Your Role: Owner" or "Your Role: Lead" which Lead would be another custom field that we have.