Hi Tim,

We have improved the sharing of filters as part of our JIRA 3.13 release. We expect this to be available in early Sept.

Thanks for your suggestions!

Brian Lane
JIRA Product Manager

Tim,

You might be interested in the following plugin:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAEXT/Saved+Filters+Subset

Anton

honestly, this looks a little more involved than I'm up for in terms of our own customizations. I'll wait (hopefully not forever) for a more permanent solution. I am heartened by the 7 other votes, obviously some other people have run into this issue as well.

Tim,

I think the best wa yto record the user to filter association is to store it in the userassociation table. Use:

associationManager.createAssociation(User user, GenericValue sink, String associationType)

Use some value like "favouritefilter" for associationType.

You can then retrieve the favourite filters using:

associationManager.getSinkFromUser(User source, String sinkName, String associationType, boolean useCache)

Use false for useCache.

I guess you it will not be possible to do this with 100% pure plugin. You will need to extend the user interface and for this some JSPs will need to be patched. You can use the WebWork action plugin to process the requests for marking a filter as favourite:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Webwork+plugin+module

However, a JSp will still need to be patched to create a link to the WebWork action plugin.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Anton

sounds wonderful; how would you recommend I store that a filter was in a person's favorites list? is there a custom field capability for filters as there is for issues?

You know it

Hi,

As you are aware such portlet does not exist at the moment. However it is possible to create new porlets using JIAR's plugin sub-system. For more information please see our tutorial:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9742

Thanks,
Anton