The Goldfish Chronicles

One idea I’d noted down recently to work on was a JIRA plugin for putting static HTML on the front of a JIRA. It seemed like a pretty useful thing to have - a versatile way for an admin to hack a solution on quickly rather than coding something. I scribbled down my notes…

* HTML portlet. Let's you put bits of hardcoded HTML onto the page.
This allows for adding nice links to things, and pretty much anything
else you want. It could be done as a bookmark system a la Roller, but
that would mean doing webwork in the admin screen I think.

“Yes”, I thought, “the Introduction portlet could be used for that, but that doesn’t make much semantic sense and you’d be limited to just the one”. “Such a simple idea”, thought I, “it’s a wonder it’s not been done before. “.

Obviously that should have been a great big warning sign right there. Fortunately I didn’t spend anymore time on it… then while doing a JIRA upgrade last night I happened to click on the Portlets Plugin and saw that accompanying the 16 enabled plugins was a lonely disabled plugin named “Text (text)”, with a description of “Display any text, formatted as HTML.”.

So, if, at the beginning of this post, the idea of a HTML portlet sounded good for whatever hackish need you have, go and enable this plugin and have at it.

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