I used the mentioned piece of code in the banneer (Jira 8.13)

<style type="text/css">
#opsbar-transitions_more_drop

</style>

it worked - workflow steps bar is way wider - but text is still truncated

https://getsupport.atlassian.com/browse/GHS-105247

We want to update to Version 6.4.5
In ...\atlassian-jira\includes\decorators\aui-layout\head-resources.jsp I don't find code like

<style type="text/css">
#opsbar-transitions_more_drop

</style>

Has this code moved to another file?

Hi Bhushan,

that didn't help, only the transition buttons got wider

but changing the id helped

<style type="text/css">
#opsbar-transitions_more_drop

</style>

Hey Peter,

Paste this in your announcement banner

<style type="text/css">
.issueaction-workflow-transition
{ min-width: 400px !important; max-width: 400px !important; }
</style>

Do you have any tips for JIRA 5.2.7?
Since modifing IssueOperationsBarUtil.java doesn't work anymore.
It seems like the width of the drop down (200px) is hard coded in java script somewhere

Thanks for the feedback and the suggestion - for many UI Elements in JIRA, letting text or labels go unbounded creates a much more complex UI and problems in different displays, so we enforce displaying certain sizes like we do in this case.

If this is a critical issue for your organization, there are the solutions suggested in the comments, though they do require modifications to JIRA source which are not guaranteed to work with future versions of JIRA.

Cheers,

JIRA Product Management

This can be done by customizing your JIRA source code so that the menus can display more than 25 characters. You can download the source code from the following link:

• http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/JIRASourceDownloads.jspa

Once you have downloaded the source code, locate the file IssueOperationsBarUtil.java which is located on the following directory

atlassian-jira-4.4.4-source\jira-project\jira-components\jira-core\src\main\java\com\atlassian\jira\issue\util

Within that file, locate the following lines:

    /**
     * Get a display label for a link
     * Shows a maximum of 25 characters.
     *
     * @param link the link to get the label for.
     * @return the links label, abbreviated to 25 chars
     */
    public String getLabelForLink(SimpleLink link)
    {
        return StringUtils.abbreviate(link.getLabel(), 25);
    }

    /**
     * Get the title for the link.
     * If the link label has been abbreviated and there is no set title, use the full label.
     *
     * @param link The link to get the title for.
     * @return The title for the link
     */
    public String getTitleForLink(SimpleLink link)
    {
        final String label = link.getLabel();
        final String title = link.getTitle();

        if (StringUtils.isBlank(title))
        {
            if (label.length() > 25)
            {
                return label;
            }

            return "";
        }

        return title;

    }

}

As you can see from the source, the limitations of the label link (getLabelForLink() method) returns a string of 25 characters. Modify the number to your preference (ie. 50) and also modify the string length for title link (getTitleForLink() Method).

Once you have modified the file, you will need to build JIRA from source to make a JIRA Patch. Please refer to the following documentation for detailed steps:

• http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA044/How+to+Make+a+JIRA+Patch

Solution:

in file:
atlassian-jira/includes/panels/issue/viewissue-opsbar.jsp

on line 41

<a class="aui-list-item-link <ww:property value="./styleClass"/> 
<ww:property value="@group/id"/>" id="<ww:property value="./id"/>" 
title="<ww:property value="/opsBarUtil/titleForLink(.)"/>" href="<ww:property value="./url"/>">
<ww:property value="/opsBarUtil/labelForLink(.)"/></a>

replace "labelForLink" with "titleForLink"