Calculated text field format date

[Roy Chapman]

Hopefully a simple question.  A user wants to "hide" date fields on a tab (rather than them appearing in the date section.  The only way I can do this is to maintain a matching calculated text field that takes a copy of the date each time it changes, like this

if (issue.get("customfield_13503") != null)  return issue.get("customfield_13503");

I then remove the actual date fields from the view screen.  Only problem is the format of the date field appears as 

"2018-08-13 00:00:00.0"

Any way of formatting this?

[David Fischer · Accepted solution]

Hi Roy,

there are multiple ways to format the date according to your needs, such as:

if (issue.get("customfield_13503") == null)
  return null;
return issue.get("customfield_13503").toLocaleString();

or to use Jira's default formatting:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.datetime.DateTimeFormatter;
import com.atlassian.jira.datetime.DateTimeStyle;

if (issue.get("customfield_13503") == null)
 return null;

DateTimeFormatter dtf = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(DateTimeFormatter.class);
return dtf.withStyle(DateTimeStyle.DATE).format(issue.get("customfield_13503"));

and you can change the date time style using one of the constants here: https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/7.2.9/com/atlassian/jira/datetime/DateTimeStyle.html

[Roy Chapman]

Awesome!  thanks for the quick response.  Exactly what I was looking for