WikiRenderer doesn't render [notes://] links. DefaultTextRenderer does. For details why, please see this comment below

The documentation says I can create hyperlinks in the Description field, using WIKI markup, by surrounding my link with '[' and ']'. I would like to be able to create links to Notes documents, using the notes:// protocol, and this appears to have been addressed earlier at

http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-2096

If I embed an http:// hyperlink, as above, it works. If I embed a [notes://] hyperlink, it doesn't.

Curiously, it does appear to work in fields other than Description. If I put a [notes://] link in a comment, the link works. It also works if I generate a custom field of type URL and paste the notes:// hyperlink into that. The WIKI renderer is enabled for the Description field.

• Here is a sample Description field entry:

  Here's a list of multiple jobs that need to be patched:

  Correct handling of bad blocks inside a read request
  *-
  [Notes://alphamosaic-m01/80256E460038EF1B/AAC7D56CA8FD884B852563BE00610639/8532F02196D6FCC48025721F0045D5CC]
  Merged functional improvements from the trunk
  *-
  [Notes://alphamosaic-m01/80256E460038EF1B/AAC7D56CA8FD884B852563BE00610639/6872C1BE4F98BD3D802571FE00312DA4]

• What should happen is that the Notes references become hyperlinks.
• What actually happens is that I get plain text

Additional requested protocols to support

From the comments, we have to add a support for these protocols too:

• svn://
• file://
• notes://

 As an idea - to make this pluggable, admin user can define JIRA-wide the list of supported protocol prefixes.

Workarounds

• Use a text render (or an additional field with a text renderer), since the text renderer properly handles the links.
• Use a browser plug-in in a user browsers, to replace certain protocol links with the real links.