Hide Custom Field from View Screen

[Darin Hafer]

How can I set set a custom field to be "Hidden" from the View Screen when the Issue has a certain Status or Statuses?

I have the CustomField object by calling:

ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObject("customfield_12501")

But I see no method to hide the field.

[Alexey Matveev · Accepted solution]

Hello,

You would need a plugin for it. For example, you could use the Power Scripts add-on:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/43318/power-scripts-jira-script-automation?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

You could create a live field with a code like this:

if(status == "Closed") {

    lfHide("customfield_100001");

}

100001 is the id of your custom field.

You can read more about Live Fields here:

https://confluence.cprime.io/display/JJUPIN/Live+Fields

[Darin Hafer]

Thank you Alexey. I installed the plugin on a test environment. I have one Live Field and two post-functions.

Neither of them hide or show the field I specify.

The live field does exactly what your code does above but I changed the value to match my custom field.

The two post-functions are set up, one on one transition to "hide", and the other on another transition to "show". My guess is there's no need for the two post-function sil scripts if I do it in a livefield, but I'm trying whatever I can.

So I'm trying to use logPrint() to try to debug my "livefield" config. Nothing appears in the jira log. So I added the package to the logging. Still no debug and field never hides.

[Alexey Matveev]

You do not have to create post functions. You need to create this script and attach this script to the live field.

[Darin Hafer]

I already have that:

Still nothing in the logs.

[Alexey Matveev]

You should logPrint with ERROR. Or you need to set the DEBUG logging level for SIL in your Jira instance. You can find how to do it here:

https://confluence.cprime.io/display/SIL/logPrint

[Darin Hafer]

Yes, I already had that in place.

[Alexey Matveev]

I am not sure why it is not working. Everything looks good.

[Darin Hafer]

Thank you, let me try with a different custom field and see if I can get it to work. I will mark your answer as correct since this "should" work.

[Alexander Richter]

Hi there,

i just saw this issue because i also need to hide some customfields, too.

Regarding Power Scripts, the Livefield Routines (i.e. lfHide) don't work with customfield types that come from 3rd party Apps.

They only integrate with Standard field types like text, single select and so on.

So if your customfields are no standard type, this would be the answer why it does not work.