Custom fields in outgoing HTML issueassign.vm do not show proper data in Email

[AndreH]

I have created several custom fields in Jira -

• Assigned Group (Group Picker)
• Customer (User Picker)
• Planned Start (Date Picker)

I have added these fields to outgoing HTML emails (issueassigned.vm) and I have also created the corresponding fields (assignedgroup.vm, customer.vm and plannedstart.vm)

When the email is sent out, the data in the email does not match the true data values.
For Example -
Assigned Group: [com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.impl.ImmutableGroup@14cd6]
(This should be Uno for the Group Name)

Customer: aarockia:10001
(This should be Arockiasamy, Anthony)

Planned Start: 2013-05-11 00:00:00.0
(This Should be 05/11/13 12:00 AM)

[AndreH · Accepted solution]

$issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_11000").get(0).name

works for the assigned group

[AndreH]

I got the date to work as well with the following -

#disable_html_escaping()
#if ($issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_10308"))
<tr valign="top">
<td style="color:${textColour};font-family:${textFontFamily};font-size:${textSize};padding:0 10px 10px 0;white-space:nowrap;">
<strong style="font-weight:normal;color:${textSubtleColour};">#text("Planned Start"):</strong>
</td>
<td style="color:${textColour};font-family:${textFontFamily};font-size:${textSize};padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
$dateformatter.formatDMYHMS($issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_10308"))
</td>
#end
</tr>

[AndreH]

All I am missing is the Group Picker.... Any idea how this is formated?

[AndreH]

I got the Custom user field to show properly in the email by using -

#disable_html_escaping()
#if ($issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_11400"))
<tr valign="top">
<td style="color:${textColour};font-family:${textFontFamily};font-size:${textSize};padding:0 10px 10px 0;white-space:nowrap;">
<strong style="font-weight:normal;color:${textSubtleColour};">#text("Customer"):</strong>
</td>
<td style="color:${textColour};font-family:${textFontFamily};font-size:${textSize};padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
#authorlink($issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_11400").name)
</td>
#end
</tr>

[Sameera Shaakunthala [inactive]]

Try 'getDisplayName()'

Following worked for me, for multi-user custom fields. You can try the same for group picker too:

#if($issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_xxxxx"))#foreach($c_p in $issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_xxxxx"))$c_p.getDisplayName()#if($velocityCount != $issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_xxxxx").size()), #end#end#{else}Not Specified#end

(replace 'customfield_xxxxx' with the actual text ID of the required custom field in your instance)

For date picker you can use the dateformatter,

#if($issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_xxxxx"))$dateformatter.formatDateTimePicker($issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_xxxxx"))#{else}Not specified#end

Refer to Atlassian's developer documentation and javadocs for more information. (Google them)

Also, following question might be helpful:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/154833/velocity-how-to-get-user-ids-in-a-multi-user-custom-field-into-a-comma-separated-string

[AndreH]

I tried this setup -

#disable_html_escaping()
#if($issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_10308"))$dateformatter.formatDateTimePicker($issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_10308"))#{else}Not specified#end

and it does not work

[Sameera Shaakunthala [inactive]]

I hope you already know how to make VM teplate changes effective without restarting JIRA.

Then, do the following,

1. Go to JIRA Administration --> Mail Queue
2. Flush Mail Queue once to make sure there's no pending delivery
3. Make changes and save the template file.
4. Refresh Mail Queue. What do you see? Normally there should be one or several mail messages queued. Also, if each item begins with text 'ERROR:', then again there's a problem.
5. Flush the Mail Queue. Wait a minute and two and check your inbox. If you have received an e-mail with a big stacktrace (error log kind of thing), paste it here so we can look at the problem.

[AndreH]

All I am missing is the Group Picker.... Any idea how this is formated?

Using the following type of format I got the user picker and the date to work properly... now I'm just missing the Group Picker custom field

#authorlink($issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_10094").name)

[codelab expert]

Please try it with $ issue.getCustomFieldValue ("abc").getValue ();

[AndreH]

I tried this setup -

#disable_html_escaping()
#if ($issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_11207"))
<tr valign="top">
<td style="color:${textColour};font-family:${textFontFamily};font-size:${textSize};padding:0 10px 10px 0;white-space:nowrap;">
<strong style="font-weight:normal;color:${textSubtleColour};">#text("Assigned Group"):</strong>
</td>
<td style="color:${textColour};font-family:${textFontFamily};font-size:${textSize};padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
$issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_11207").getValue();
</td>
#end
</tr>

And it does not work.

[AndreH]

And here is the issueassigned.vm -

#parse("templates/email/html/includes/fields/assignedgroup.vm")

[AndreH]

Here is a sample of the assignedgroup.vm file -

#disable_html_escaping()

#if ($issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_11207"))

<tr valign="top">

<td style="color:${textColour};font-family:${textFontFamily};font-size:${textSize};padding:0 10px 10px 0;white-space:nowrap;">

<strong style="font-weight:normal;color:${textSubtleColour};">#text("Assigned Group"):</strong>

</td>

<td style="color:${textColour};font-family:${textFontFamily};font-size:${textSize};padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">

$issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_11207")

</td>

#end

</tr>