How do you make a web item disabled on plugin install?

[Bob Swift]

Neither of these approaches seem to work - all items show as enabled. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Web+Item+Plugin+Module suggests that the first option should work.

1. as an attribute

   <web-item key= ... disabled="true">
   ...
   </web-item>
   

2. as an element

   <web-item ... >
   ...
   <disabled>true</disabled>
   </web-item>
   

[Adam Laskowski · Accepted solution]

Hi Bob,

According to the documentation, your use of <web-item ... disabled="true"> is correct, however, when we examined the source code, it looks like the way do disable a web item is to use:

<web-item ... state="disabled">

We will investigate the descepency and make sure that the documentation is in line with the correct way to use the disable attribute, whether it be a code- or doc-based fix. Please track the progress here:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-25157

[Shannon Krebs]

I'm guessing this is related to Jira plugins based on the url? am pretty sure the disabled="true" attribute works in Confluence.

[Bob Swift]

Yes, JIRA 4.3.3 and 4.2.4.