[#JRA-11313] Hide/show fields in word export

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Hide/show fields in word export

Created: 17/Oct/06 03:16 AM Updated: 28/Nov/07 06:15 AM

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Plugins - Issue Views, Plugins - Issue Navigator Views

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JRA-12813 Export to Word: more control

~~JRA-10404~~ Make 'views' of content (single issue and search request) pluggable, and rewrite default implementations in velocity

Participants:	Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian], Ian Cornwell, Scott Farquhar [Atlassian], Steven Vandal and Wim Deblauwe
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A new feature: JIRA could allow the selection of which issue fields are included in the Word export. (This would allow us to use JIRA for a project in which we are obliged to produce Word reports on hundreds of issues every month, with an established format).
A thread on the forum confirmed that all fields are exported at present.

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Scott Farquhar [Atlassian] - 19/Oct/06 12:48 AM

Ian,

As of JIRA 3.7, you will be able to specify your own 'views' of issues. This would enable you to create your own 'word' view of an issue.

I'll leave this open until 3.7 is released - let me know if that fixes it for you.

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Wim Deblauwe - 06/Apr/07 01:39 AM

How do you specify your own view of issues? I would need this functionality also.

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Ian Cornwell - 12/Sep/07 04:54 AM

I've only just got round to looking back at this. We do still need it. I assume that what Scott refers to is the selection of (XML | Word | Printable) when you are viewing an individual issue. I can't see that this helps our reporting though - we need a monthly report generated for the whole project, covering several hundred issues, so we can't do this one-by-one.

If there's a way to use the current functionality to do issues in bulk then please let me know.
Otherwise I'd like to keep this issue open, and re-affirm the request for this feature. Alternatively the Excel export would be OK if it could include the comments.
Time is now short for us, so we may need to develop something ourselves. The initial forum conversation last year suggested issue-word.jsp. We'll have to see whether it would be better to edit that or do a plugin.

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Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian] - 12/Sep/07 11:41 PM

Hi,

This should be possible as a plugin. The Issue Navigator views are plugins since JIRA 3.7.

Have a look at JIRA's system-issueviews-plugin.xml file. This is where the default Word View plugin appears.

It shoud be possible to use the "issue-word" plugin as the starting point, copy over its files and modify the copy of single-word.vm to only show the needed fields.

Then add a "search-request-view" that will use the new custom "word-view" to export multiple issues from the Issue Navigator.

Cheers,
Anton

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Steven Vandal - 27/Nov/07 01:48 PM

We are also looking into having a own customized Word export layout

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Ian Cornwell - 28/Nov/07 02:48 AM

Info that might be useful: As a workaround we ended up writing a report plugin that generates HTML but saves as a Word doc.

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Steven Vandal - 28/Nov/07 06:15 AM

Thanks for the info. I'll see if our team here knows how we can manage to do that as well (using a report plugin that generates HTML but saves as a Word document) I am kinda new to all this.