Can I adjust footer.vm

[Howard Nedd]

Currently this is my footer in JIRA:

So I found the footer.vm and by removing this line: 

I make sure that the default text is removed in emails from Jira. 

I would like to change this to:
Atlassian Academy (URL)

Need assistance, register an issue "here (URL)"

Is this possible to adjust in the footer.vm? if so, does anyone have an example or should I do it elsewhere?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

I think that's the right place to do it.

A .vm file can be thought of as "processed html".  Imagine the system processes it a line at a time.  As it reads each line, it simply copies them to the output, unless it finds a directive or variable.  If your desired text is just simple fixed html, you can put that straight into the .vm, and it'll be copied verbatim.

[Howard Nedd]

Hi Nic,

Thank you. So it would be something like:

<a href=\"https://fakelink.com/u/myuser\"> Atlassian Academy </a>";

String s = "Need assistance, register an issue <a href=\"https://fakelink.com/u/myuser\"> here</a>";

?

[Howard Nedd]

Another related question, i found the footer.vm for Confluence but that does look rather different. Where can I get rid of the same text in Confluence?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Confluence uses a different system, I'm not sure where to change those.

As for the html, yes, that should work.