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Custom buttons in the JIRA top navigation bar stopped working after upgrade to JIRA 6.4

Custom buttons in the JIRA top navigation bar stopped working after upgrade to JIRA 6.4

We have the below code for two buttons in the system-top-navigation-plugin.xml file:

<web-section key="my_links_section_docs" name="My Links Main Section" location="my_links_link" weight="10"/>
       <web-item key="my_links_docs" name="Link on My Links Main Section" section="system.top.navigation.bar" weight="47">
         <label>Docs</label>
         <link href="my_links_docs">/docs</link>
       </web-item>
 
 
<web-section key="my_links_section_issues" name="My Links Main Section" location="my_links_link" weight="10"/>
      <web-item key="my_links_source" name="Link on My Links Main Section" section="system.top.navigation.bar" weight="47">
         <label>Source</label>
         <link href="my_links_source">/source</link>
       </web-item>
These buttons are supposed to point to different links depending on what page we are currently on. This functionality worked fine on JIRA 6.1, but seems broken after upgrade to 6.4.
I still see the buttons in the header after upgrade to JIRA 6.4, but the header.jsp file that handles the logic for how the buttons should behave does not not seem to be triggered at all (as the buttons point to the same link regardless of what page we're on).
Appreciate any help around this...

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Hi Mairaj!

I had the same problem with my custom plugin that worked under JIRA 6.1 and did not work under 6.3. Do not remember how I resolved it but it was something connected with location of the section. In your sample I do not see where is my_links_link location that you have in the web-section tags. Do you really need web-sections if you add direct links to the top bar?

Here is my XML that adds top menu with one submenu. in my sample last web-item has empty link since the plugin is triggered by javascript onclick for "add-myplugin-project-trigger" class:

&lt;!-- menu --&gt;
  &lt;web-item key="my-plugin-top-menu" name="my-plugin-top-menu" section="system.top.navigation.bar"
    weight="47"&gt;
    &lt;label key="menu.myplugin.section" /&gt;
    &lt;link linkId="my-plugin-top-menu-link" /&gt;
  &lt;/web-item&gt;
  &lt;web-section key="my-plugin-menu-section" name="my-plugin-menu-section" location="my-plugin-top-menu-link"
    weight="10"&gt;
  &lt;/web-section&gt;
  &lt;web-item key="my-plugin-menu-item" name="my-plugin-menu-item"
    section="my-plugin-top-menu-link/my-plugin-menu-section" weight="10"&gt;
    &lt;label key="menu.myplugin.name" /&gt;
    &lt;tooltip key="menu.myplugin.label" /&gt;
    &lt;link /&gt;
    &lt;styleClass&gt;add-myplugin-project-trigger&lt;/styleClass&gt;
  &lt;/web-item&gt;