Cascading Field - Add Hover Over Text on Parent/Child Values?

[Ricky Lin]

Scenario:

I have a cascading field is to store about 50-60 child values consisted of acronyms.  I would like it so that when you hover over each option, a short description shows up and tell you what the option is.

Setup:

1. Cascading CF Name: Cascading Field
2. Cascading CF ID: 10300
3. Cascading CF Parent Value ID: 10300
4. Cascading CF Child Value IDs:  10302, 10303, 10304

What I've tried:

Using Browser Development Tools, I've been able to get the look in IE/Firefox with the following code:

<select class="select cascadingselect-child" id="customfield_10300:1" name="customfield_10300:1">
<option class="option-group-10300" value="">None</option>
<option class="option-group-10300" value="10302" title="KOMM Short Description">KOMM</option>
<option class="option-group-10300" value="10303">FEDREC</option>
<option class="option-group-10300" value="10304">PMP</option>
</select>

However, the expected changes do not take place when I put that code into the Description of the Cascading CF.  How can I get JIRA to recognize the simple code online?  Has anyone had any experience with this or have a better approach to accomplish this?  I'd really appreciate any feedback... Thank you

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

Do you mean that you put javascript into the description of the field? Your jira version is not Cloud?

[Ricky Lin]

Hi there.  Yes - i put the code into the description of the cascading field (although I don't think its javascript, but just HTML).  However, I may not have it properly formatted for JIRA to pick up the titles.

My JIRA version is 7.4.2 Server.

[Alexey Matveev]

It should work. Put there a simple javascript which will return alert to you and check.

<script> alert( 'Hello, world!' ); </script>

[Ricky Lin]

Hi Alexey.  Thanks for the response.  I put that simple JS script into description and it did return me an alert.  However, what I don't know is the right code to get JIRA to interact with it (I'm very new to scripting).

How do you suggest I modify the existing code to make JIRA recognize what I'm trying to accomplish?

[Alexey Matveev]

Use Jquery to do what you want to do. But I would not advise you to do it. Too much hassle and possible problems.

[Ricky Lin]

Hi Alexey.  First of all, thank you for taking the time to respond to me (i know it's an uncommon use case).

However, i cannot mark your any of your answers as the solution as none of them really provides much insight to what I want to accomplish.  Hoping for a simple HTML solution (unless there isn't one).

Appreciate it anyhow.