Why am I redirect with a webItem linked to a dialog ?

[Florian Dewulf]

Hi,

My goal is to have a link in the left sidebar of my project, and when I click on it, I would like to open a dialog.

I'm using node-atlassian-connect, I followed the documentation, and I got a json to manage my modules like this :

"modules": {
  "webItems": [
    {
      "name": {
        "value": "Creer un client"
      },
      "location": "jira.project.sidebar.plugins.navigation",
      "weight": 200,
      "context": "addon",
      "key": "module-create-customer",
      "target": {
        "type": "dialogmodule",
        "options": {
          "key": "module-create-customer-dialog"
        }
      },
      "conditions": [
        {
          "condition": "user_is_logged_in"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "dialogs": [
    {
      "key": "module-create-customer-dialog",
      "name": {
        "value": "Atlassian de merde"
      },
      "url": "/test-dialog",
      "options": {
        "size": "large",
        "header": {
          "value": "Creation d'un customer"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

According to the documentation, it seems right. The problem is, when I click on my webItem, the dialog appears and immediatly, I'm redirected to a 404 not found page.

After a couple hours investigating, I found the issue. My webitem is a generated as a html link, so the Javascript behind open the dialog but the html is still interpreted and so the browser follows the link.

When I remove the link thanks to the developer panel of Chrome, I'm not redirected and my dialog appears exactly like I want.

Is there something I don't understand or do you see a mistake ? Or is there an issue with the webItem generation from Atlassian ?

I don't have any way to modify this output html, do I ?

Thanks for your help,

Regards, Florian.