Hi,
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:36:34PM +0200, Sebastiano Pilla wrote:
Hi, we have received a couple of requests from one of our customers
that I'm not sure how to implement in the JIRA version they're using.
They're using JIRA 2.0.2 with some customizations at the presentation
level.
The first request: they would like to be able to discriminate between
"open" projects (i.e. projects they're actually working on) and
"closed" projects (i.e. projects on which there's been no actual work
done for a while).
How about archiving the old versions?
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/v2.2.1/version_management.html#Archive+a+Version
The second request: they would like to be able to have in the
Dashboard, for each project, a link pointing to another area of their
intranet.
There could perhaps be done with a bit of JSP editing. If you used the
project 'url' field to store the intranet link, then you could display it
on the dashboard by:
- Clicking 'Configure your dashboard'
- Click 'Add', then select 'Project' to add a full project view.
- Edit includes/dashboard/project.jsp, the JSP associated with the
Project portlet, and add some HTML to print the URL. I've attached a
patch showing how to do it.
To me, it looks like both these requests could be satisfied if JIRA had
the possibility to associate custom fields to projects, other than to
issues.
There are many cases where it would be useful to have issue-level
concepts (type, lifecycle, priority, due date, scheduling, custom fields)
apply to projects, and project-level concepts (permissions,
notifications, URLs) apply to issues. Effectively treating projects as
aggregate issues.
JIRA will evolve to greater levels of generality as users request it.
You might want to file an enhancement request for project-level custom
fields on jira.atlassian.com.
In general, JIRA needs to keep a balance between simplicity for 80% who
don't need advanced features, and generality for the 20% who do. Giving
users the source (or just JSP source, as illustrated above) lets us err
on the side of simplicity.
Hope that helps,
--Jeff
As far as I know, this possibility doesn't exist in JIRA, but
I'd like to be proven wrong.
Any comments?
Thanks
Ing. Sebastiano Pilla, CTO
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