Highlight contributors of release notes
- Annu
Background
This is a custom plugin called Users to ARN template that highlights your team members as contributions who led to the success of the release. This simple yet interesting plugin allows you to recognize your team members and give them credit of the release’s success.
This plugin is available for both Jira Cloud and Datacenter versions of the app for below template types -
Email
PDF
Confluence
HTML
Release page notifications
MS-Word
How to use the User plugin?
This plugin is by default added at the end of the template.
Click on it and edit below given fields -
Titile (not visible to end users) - Add the title for example Contributors, Heroes, etc. It is only for your reference and not visible in the output. For the output, you can of course add the text or emojis as needed before this plugin in the main template body.
JQL - The system will first fetch the Jira issues that are returned by the JQL and then look for the value of the field selected in the Jira fields (explained below).
Jira fields - This field shows the drop-down list of User picker (single user) type and User picker (multiple users) type fields. Then the system look for the users within the configured user picker field against those Jira issues.
Now, system forms the list of unique users returned in the above step. The list will contain only the display names of these users returned by Jira APIs. Users names are displayed comma-separated manner.
Below image shows the sample output preview of the email.