"Jira Misc Custom Fields" Transition Date/Time Field not showing timestamp

[Bryan Karsh]

Hi,

I am using version 1.5.7 of Jira Misc Custom Fields Plugin.

I am running jira 5.2.6 on a mysql server.

When I set up a Transition Date/Time Field, like so:

<!-- @TransitionId: 21,31,41,121,51,61,71,81,101,111,131 -->
<!-- @Execution: last -->

The field only displays Date information in a filter -- not Date + timestamp. However, when I look at a particular ticket, the field shows up fine, showing both Date and Timestamp.

Is this a known bug? Seeing the date in the filter is nice, but our tickets see a lot of action, so the the timestamp is crucial for us.

[David Fischer · Accepted solution]

This is actually JIRA's standard display for datetime fields in the issue navigator (see the create and modified fields). See https://innovalog.atlassian.net/browse/JMCF-51 for details.

If you really want to see date+time in the issue navigator, you must modify the JMCF plugin JAR. You need to locate it in your JIRA instance server (inside <jira-data>/plugins/installed-plugins). The file name will contain "jira-misc-custom-fields".

Open it as a ZIP file, and edit the atlassian-plugin.xml file. Locate the following line:

<resource type="velocity" name="column-view"
              location="templates/plugins/fields/view/view-date.vm"/>

and replace "view-date.vm" with "view-datetime.vm".

[Bryan Karsh]

thanks -- I'll modify the plugin. Weird though -- the created and updated fields show time stamps in my nav screen. But I bestow upon you the karma. Thanks for the help!

[David Fischer]

Actually, you can configure the format that JIRA uses in the issue navigator, so that's probably what you did. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found how to take advantage of that configuration for the transition date field (but I'm sure it's possible).