plug-in to automatically turn issue references in comments into hyperlinks

[Gavin Smith]

We have just migrated from JIRA 4.1.2 to JIRA 4.4.3

Previously when a user mentioned an issue number in a comment it was automatically turned into a link back to that issue.

e.g. if you typed: "see issue: AB01-1234" as a comment 'AB01-1234' would be automatically turned into a hyperlink to that issue.

After migrating to JIRA 4.4.3 this doesn't happen anymore.

An external consultant carried out our initial JIRA installation, so I don't know if he installed a plug-in for this functionality, or it if is an option in JIRA somewhere.

Does anyone know how to get this working again?

[Gavin Smith · Accepted solution]

Fixed it!

Updated 'jira.projectkey.pattern' under 'Advanced Settings'

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA044/Configuring+Project+Keys

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA044/Configuring+JIRA+Options#ConfiguringJIRAOptions-advanced

Old setting: "([A-Z][A-Z]+)"

New setting: "([A-Z][A-Z0-9]+)"

The default setting for the Project Key regular expression did not match our project keys, as they contain numbers.

Changing the 'jira.projectkey.pattern' setting fixed the problem.

[Hua Ai]

When I apply the same solution, the system does not allow it. An error message like below appears under the edit box for the pattern:

An existing project contains a key that cannot be matched with the pattern.

Any suggestions?