How add issue information via DOM manipulation after Create Issue?

[Carsten A.]

Hi there,

I have a custom project tab where I list issues kind of custom ordered showing a few issue information (Icon, Key, Summary, Status, FixVersion, Assignee). When I create a new issue successfully, I want to add it via DOM-manipulation to my tab (according to my order).

I don't realy know how to get there:

• Do I have the add a event listener? How do I get the issue and its information "on the screen"?
• Do I have to add a javascript to the issue creation page executing when I click the create button? But how do I know the issue was successfully created?

Can anybody provide further guidance to solve this?

Thank in advance.

[Carsten A. · Accepted solution]

I "dirty-hacked" a little bit:
I store all the field values entered when the Create button is clicked. Since Jira "reloads" the project-tab I'm on via the click-Event, I added a listener. This listener is looking for the success-message to get the issue-key of the just created issue and prevent the click (and the tab reload).
Then I create my dom-object with the issuekey and the stored field values and add it to the correct position in dom.

It's a reeeeaaaally dirty hack, but it does wha it's supposed to do.

So thanks for all your help. If you have better solutions, feel free to share them with me. :)

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm a little confused - javascript runs on the client, listeners run on the server, and there's no interface between the two for listeners. So I don't think your listener is providing anything for the front-end to work with on the client. I don't think you can do javascript this way.

[Carsten A.]

Sorry. I just did not really made myself clear enough.
I just mixed two approaches to the point of misunderstanding. I edited the question and I hope you can now understand where I am trying to get.

[twong_atlassian]

If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to be able to dynamically update a view of some filter whenever something happens (e.g. a ticket is created).

if so, I think this is what you're looking for:

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/JIRA+Webhooks+Overview

[Carsten A.]

Not really.

First of all I should say that we're still on JIRA 5.0.2 and Webhooks are only available since 5.2.

Second, I need to provide this functionality via a custom plugin, which will be installed on more than one instance.

[Renjith Pillai]

I guess we all are still confused what you are trying to achieve.

Is it that you have your own tab in the project page (as in https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Browsing+a+Project) and once the user creates a new issue using 'Create Issue' button on the right top corner, you want to refresh your page automatically with the new issue content as well?

[Carsten A.]

Exactly. Ok. Just to make it more clear:

I've written a jira plugin, which adds a "new" project tab (like shown here: Browsing a Project's Issues). On this tab/page I can select a version of the project. After selecting a version all issues related to that versions hierarchy (VersionAssociation via Greenhopper) are shown kind of hierarchical with a few issue informations. This is for project planning and workflow overview.
Now I want to be able to use jiras "Create Issue" and want to add the created issue to the page without the need to reload/refresh the page (just DOM manipulation). This should be achieved with the plugin itself.

There I'm stuck. When I write a listener I don't know howto "call" a dom manipulation from that. And when e.g. adding custom javascript to the submit of the CreateIssue dialog, I don't know how I should check if the issue was created successfully or not. It would be enough to "get" only the issues created by the user currently viewing the tab. I don't need to "get" the all the other issues created in the meantime by other users.