If I understand the Quip list correctly, it would show a random message from the list everytime a search is performed. Is this so?

Thanks,
Anton

Yes. With the ability to add to the list.

For many coming from bugzilla, it's the #1 feature.

Please do not presume that what is appropriate and good for your environment is completely congruent with our environment.

One of our corporate objectives is to have a "Great Place to Work," and the quips in bugzilla are one of those little things that makes our environment more fun, and people really appreciate it.

I wouldn't go trying to gainsay your feature requests.

When we implement this feature we will definitely make it configurable so it will be possible to turn it off. Please bare with us as we are trying ot get through a list of features that have become very popular:
http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:popularissues-panel

Thanks,
Anton

Then edit your Announcement Banner (Admin, Options and Settings) and paste the following text in, hit Save, and you should see a random quip appear. You will need to set the numberQuips variable to the number of quips you have locally (I know, this is tedious to maintain). Adding quips is a matter of adding the new files to the Jira server; there's no nice approval mechanism with this approach.

<!--Cut and paste below here -->

<script type="text/javascript">
// Add leading zeroes to the name of the file that a quip is in.
function paddedRandom() {
numberQuips = 60
quip_num = Math.floor(Math.random() * numberQuips)
if (quip_num < 10) { quip_num = "0" + quip_num }
return quip_num
}

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• Dynamic Ajax Content- © Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (www.dynamicdrive.com)
• This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
• Visit Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code
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var rootdomain="http://"+window.location.hostname

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}
else
return false
page_request.onreadystatechange=function(){ loadpage(page_request, containerid) }
url = url + paddedRandom()
page_request.open('GET', url, true)
page_request.send(null)
}

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}
}

// This will load the given URL, which has a suffix added above, into the named div element
ajaxpage('../../quips/quip', 'quip');
</script>

<div id="quip"></div>

Adding quips is a matter of adding the new files to the Jira server

Matt - I'll share an idea with you that might allow users to upload files directly through JIRA.

Create an issue in some admin project of some sort. Add an attachment to the issue. It will create a file on the server with a specific path/name that you can then refer to instead of <local jira base>/atlassian-jira/quips/quips.txt.

Nic Brough suggested this approach in the forum as a workaround for uploading CSV import files but it might work here as well.

You can also change the style of the quip nicely with

<style type="text/css">
#quip{ font-style: oblique; }
</style>