How to display content in a dialog from a web-item in Jira 4?

[Tobias Reibling]

I am developing a jira 4 plugin which is meant to open a dialog when you click on a web-item link that is located at the top navigation bar of an issue. It should be the same behaviour which occurs when you log work on an issue.

Placing a new web-item in the top navigation bar was no problem at all, but the linked web-work-action opens on a new page but should instead rather be shown in simple dialog.

Refering to this guide (https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Displaying+Content+in+a+Dialog+in+JIRA) which unfortunately is for Jira 5, you can add <styleClass>trigger-dialog</styleClass> to a web-item which works perfectly in Jira 5 but obviously not in Jira 4. But the behaviour described in this tutorial is exactly what I want to achieve in Jira 4.

I've also tried to add <param name="isPopupLink" value="true"/> to the web-item, as I saw this in some documentations, but it has no effect at all, which has been discussed elsewhere without any solutions to it.

Apparently there has to be a solution because the log work action as mentioned above opens in a dialog too, but it seems there was some kind of javascript hacking to achieve this. Could anyone give me a little example of what I have to do to make a web-item open a dialog in which I can render the velocity file of a web-work-action like in the Jira 5 tutorial posted above?

[Tim B · Accepted solution]

I have added a web item to a web section (web section was added to opsbar-operations) and added this to the web item definition in the plugin xml:

<styleClass>issueaction-log-work</styleClass>

Now when I click it opens in a dialog.

This is a little bith of a hack because JIRA uses the style class as a reference on how to open the link.. But it works and isn't so dirty.

[Wolfgang Jia]

That tutorial applies to JIRA 5.0. So guys, it seems we don't have any options but giving up.

[Nahn Yanootz]

I am also trying to display a dialog in JIRA 4.4, but the guide/tutorial is not working for me.

[Nahn Yanootz]

I am also trying to display a dialog in JIRA 4, but the guide/tutorial is not working for me.