Jira Toolkit disables itself when custom fields screen is navigated to

paul vinter November 13, 2013

The titles says it all really.

Jira toolkit is enabled (I have reindexed) until I navigate to the Custom Fields screen at which point no new custom fields are seen. Once I navigate back to the plugins page Jira Toolkit is disabled.

I have tried this with 2 browsers open too and the same happens only when I navigate to the Custom Fields screen - has anyone else come across this?


Thanks

Paul

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paul vinter November 13, 2013

An update - I have disabled all the individual fields I do not require in Jira Toolkit, leaving only the two I do need (the messaging fields) and it no longer does this.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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November 13, 2013

That's a bit of a giveaway that it's a broken field of some sort.

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paul vinter November 13, 2013

Thanks, as a related aside to conclude, did you ever get the Message fields to work? I have setup a very simple instance, with text in the field setup, placing an alert field on a screen where the system says it should be visible and it is not.

Many threads here seem to indicate it is temperamental.

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November 13, 2013

They work fine, as long as you aren't trying anything clever in them like javascript or anything that would normally be kept in an html header etc. I wouldn't try anything more than <some text and/or tables with some formatting>

They can go quite horribly wrong if your html is sloppy and malformed though. One trick to test for this is to enclose your entire block in <div> tags

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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November 13, 2013

What version of Jira and the Toolkit are you using?

I ask because that description sounds like something I managed to do in Jira 4.0 once before the velocity fields were removed. It turned out I'd created a template that was doing bad things, and the plugin was crashing so badly, Jira disabled it.

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