How to create a Jira custom field with options from an external REST API

To do this exercise, we will use the famous plugin for Jira called Adaptavist Scriptrunner. First step, we need to create a REST Endpoint in our Jira Server. This REST Endpoint will query the external REST API to obtain the values and options (In this example we will query GitHub to obtain a list of…

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Database Custom Fields with Kepler Plugin. Show a list of issues of one JIRA project in a Custom Field

1.- Install the plugin: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.keplerrominfo.jira.plugins.keplercf 2.- Create a Custom Field of the new Type “Database Custom Field” 3.- Go to your apache-tomcat/conf/context.xml and add the Datasource (first you need to install the Database JAR Driver if it’s different database Oracle, MySQL,… for example in apache-tomcat/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.1.17.jar 4.- Restart Tomcat 5.- Go as Admin to –> JIRA –> Add-ons…

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