How to group same type fields together on the issue page ?

[Aisha M]

I want all the date fields to be displayed under the DATES section of the issue page. There seem to be all over the place at random places.

Any help please. Thank you

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

Could you provide a screenshot? Usually all dates go into the dates web panel in the issue detail view.

[Aisha M]

@Alexey Matveev I can't screenshot due to security reasons :(  I have a scripted field for displaying the Fix Version release Date. It shows up under the DATES section sometimes, and at the others places. Looks so random. Is there a way to group the fields on how they appear ? 

[Alexey Matveev]

You can use tabs in the screens to grouping fields. You can find more info about tabs here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/defining-a-screen-938847288.html

Go to the Configuring a screen's tabs and fields part.

But still dates must go to the dates part. Are you sure that you provided the correct template for your scripted field?

[Aisha M]

@Alexey Matveev Yes, I selected the Absolute Date picker for the scripted field. 

[Alexey Matveev]

It is a strange behaviour. As far as I understand this scripted field is from the ScriptRunner plugin. If so I would open a ticket in Adaptivist.

[Aisha M]

@Alexey Matveev Hey, I had used a custom template for the scripted field, since I had to remove the time stamp from it. So, hence its showing up at random places. Is there a possibility to make the field show up under the DATES on the issue page, inspiote of using a custom template ? Your thoughts on this please

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The template has to be the date/time one for Jira to recognise it as a date and move it to the date/time panel.

[Aisha M]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- At the CUSTOM FIELD configuration page, the search template for the field is defined as DATE TIME RANGE PICKER.

Also, the field is a scripted field which is supposed to display the Release date associated with a Fix Version. Initially the script returned a DATE & TIME value which caused some issues due to time zone differences. Hence, I added the below custom template to the scripted field to remove the TIME STAMP,

$datePickerFormatter.withStyle($dateTimeStyle.DATE).format($value)

Now, the field is not showing up under the dates section. Any help on how to fix this, please

[Alexey Matveev]

@Aisha M Hopefully someone from Adaptavist can answer your question. I do not have access to source code, that is why I am not sure how it works internally.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Is the template for the output also a date-time template?  You can't use a string or number etc.

[Aisha M]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- I have included the script for your reference.

Custom Template -

$datePickerFormatter.withStyle($dateTimeStyle.DATE).format($value)

Inline Script - 

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.bc.issue.IssueService 
import java.lang.Exception
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue
import com.atlassian.jira.project.version.Version
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
import java.sql.Timestamp
import java.text.DateFormat
import java.util.Date
Collection versions = issue.getFixVersions()
if (versions==null || versions.size()!=1)
 return null
def version = versions.iterator().next()
new Date(version.releaseDate.time)

  The output returns only the DATE value without the time stamp.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You need to use the date/time template, not a custom one.

[Aisha M]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- If I do that, I get the date and time as the output. I want only the date. Can that not be done ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Jira won't see it as a date/time unless you use the date output type.

[Aisha M]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- Okay. So, is there any possibility of getting only a date value by using the date and time template ? Because, it is crucial to not have a time stamp in my case

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I don't think it is.  You need a template that announces the field as a date/time in order to get the field in the date/time panel, but they'll always have a time element, as the template is used for date and time.

You can remove it by using other templates, but then the field can't be grouped becuase it's not the right type.

[Aisha M]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- There is another template available called "Absolute Date Picker". Can that be modified to return only the date value without the time ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Not without hacking ScriptRunner.

[Aisha M]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- hmm, I guess I ll have to either have my fields grouped together, or remove the time stamp. Anyway, thank you ! 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Sorry I couldn't really solve it, I think we're stuck with the templates only saying "hey, I'm a date" for full date/time sets.

[Aisha M]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- Anyway, thank you so much Nic for keeping up with all my questions :) Really appreciate your inputs