Is there a way to show a jira field within another jira field

[Joe Harmon]

In reporting I wanted to know if there was a way to show or call jira fields within other jira fields.  For example, having a field that shows the date, owner, description, etc within another field. This is helpful when doing list view reports.

[Andrew Laden · Accepted solution]

Scriptrunner, or Power Custom Fields

[jira guy]

You can achieve same thing in many ways inside JIRA. You just have to choose whatever works best for you. It might be price, your scripting knowledge, convenience or whatever

[Joe Harmon]

Do you know if JMCF (jira misc custom fields) allows for this?  I do have that one.

[David Fischer]

I'm not sure what you mean by "show or call jira fields within other jira fields". Can you give a concrete example? 

You can certainly create calculated fields using JMCF that will show other fields, but I'm not sure I understand the "within" part...

[Joe Harmon]

I was thinking a multi-line field that could represent a lot of fields for displaying in chart.  One common example is updated date.  We have a status field where we manually put in a weekly status.  It is a multi line field.  But we also have in that status the name of who the content owner and the date it was updated.  These are two items that I would like to bring in automatically at the top of the status.

[David Fischer]

I guess you could create a Calculated (scripted) Wiki Text custom field and build its value (using the formula) by concatenating the value of multiple fields. You could even include wiki markup to format the field value a little better. For example:

return """
*Last updated*: ${issue.get("updated").format("yyyy-MM-dd")}
*Assignee*:     ${issue.get("assignee")?.displayName ?: "_unassigned_"}
*Description*:
${issue.getAsString("description")}
"""

[Joe Harmon]

thanks

[jira guy]

You can use scripted fields from scriptunner or some other plugins. Not possible in out of box jira