Where can I find more velocity templates for Jira emails?

[Mark McD]

I'd like to re-do some of the internal emails that Jira sends out to put the most useful & important information front & center.

I figure I can't be the first person to try & tackle this task, are there any places where I can find examples around? If not, does anyone have any examples they could share?

[Andreas Knecht]

Or you may want to wait until JIRA 4.4 ships (soon). One of our front-end developers did a fantastic job tackling this problem in a 20% project. E-mails now are much cleaner, present important information first, thread in G-Mail and even look good on Mobile devices!

Here's a little spoiler:

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's difficult to point you to examples when we don't know what you'd like to end up with!

Anything you can generate in text or html, you can do with the email templates. It can be more easy to start with what you want to end up with as plain text, and then slot the velocity in to extract the variables you need from Jira. If you've not worked with velocity before, then I'd take one of the existing .vm files and try re-arranging them first. Take care not to amend the # and $ bits, and you'll find you can re-order your emails any way you like.

Although it's not really examples, it's well worth a read of http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Adding+Custom+Fields+to+Email for the comments (And the body of the doc eases you into email editing too)

[Jeremy Largman]

There's also Customising Email Content, which might help.

[vthoule minyaa.net]

Hi Mark,

Take a look on Minyaa Core plugin. It extends JIRA in order to implement your own Event Mail Template in your own plugin.
See below links :

• Notification Type Provider
• Template Provider

An implementation has been done in Minyaa Time for Timesheet Notifications

Regards

Vincent