Adding a Tab to Activity Section with editable information

[Denise Wermager]

I know a new tab can be added to the activities section via a custom written plugin but does anyone know if editable data can be put on a custom created tab? This would be similar to the comments tab where a user can enter/alter/delete but unlike comments it would be a single field that the user would maintain information in similar to any other jira field (ie. description).

[Radek Dostál]

While I cannot say I would have created an issue tab myself - it seems to me to be using HTML (https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/issue-tab-panel/#issue-tab-panel -> IssueAction) so pretty sure something could be done with it.

As for how it works in practice.. well, that would need some practice, but on paper it should be possible to do.

At minimum there are a few other plugins that create very custom tabs (basically a singleton IssueAction for the issue that you can interact with) - so maybe with a sprinkle of ajax and a tinge of experimenting this would work.

[Kelly Arrey]

Hi @Denise Wermager

I don't know of a way to do what you're asking, but you can create a new tab in the Description fields area, if that helps. In this Screen, we've added a second tab we've called "Admin":

Then you can add fields to your new tab. Hope this helps.

[Denise Wermager]

We are trying to avoid adding yet another tab to our issue create/edit screen because we already have a significant number but we may find that is the easiest way to do what our dev team is asking for.

[Denise Wermager]

@Kelly ArreyThank you - we already use those tabs and are aware that we can do that.