email template editor

[Brian Gray]

Are there any good email template editing guide, or better yet a plugin that would allow you to edit the Email templates.

[Andy Brook [Plugin People]]

As discussed at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Customising+Email+Content

You could use http://code.google.com/p/veloeclipse/, I have it but find it half works half annoys, the selects dont work as they do with Java code, selects multi-line content when I want the quote delimited field.

Anyway, there are no plugins that provide editing over all templates. To do assumes some things (a) that JIRA is standalone (not WAR) packaged, (b) that the running user has permission to actually modify the files (possible, but perhaps the files would be readonly), (c) that the files get cached for performance, meaning you won't be able to see result until you reboot. All in all, why write a plugin?

You're best off with notepad or similar in a DEV Jira, editing the templates directly, after disabling velocity caching.

The 'enabling' factor here would be if Atlassian addressed https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-19957 allowing YOU to disable /remove the default IssueListener and substitue your own. Potentially, this then allows custom editing through plugins, similar to what I've done with JEMH for its templates.