Adding a dropdown to an agile board

In this tutorial, you will add a new dropdown to your JIRA Software Server add-on. This dropdown will appear in the top right corner of an Agile board, next to the Board dropdown. This is done via a plugin point (added in JIRA Agile 6.6.50). 

To add this new dropdown, you will be creating a new web-section. The location of the web-section will be jira.agile.board.tools.  You will then add a web-item or web-panel inside the web-section. That’s it! See the screenshot below to see what it looks like.

Screenshot: Example web-section with a web-panel in jira.agile.board.tools.

Step 1. Create a web-section in your plugin.xml

Your web-section should look similar to this example:

<web-section location="jira.agile.board.tools" key="my.custom-board-tool-section" weight="10"> 
    <label key="gh.board.tools.reference.button"/> 
    <condition class="com.atlassian.greenhopper.client.web.condition.BoardModeCondition"> 
        <param name="mode">work</param> 
    </condition> 
</web-section>

Step 2. Add a web panel, which will be placed in your new web-section

Your web-panel should look similar to this example:

<web-panel key="board-tools-webpanel" location="my.custom-board-tool-section" weight="100">
    <resource name="view" type="velocity" location="templates/board-tools-webpanel.vm" />
    <context-provider class="com.atlassian.jira.plugin.webfragment.contextproviders.DefaultVelocityContextProvider" />
</web-panel>

Step 3. Create a velocity template that will be rendered inside the web-panel

Three context parameters are available in the template. These are$board.id, $board.type, $board.screen. 

The mode parameter is an enumeration with the following possible values:

• plan, which is tied to the Backlog page

• work, which is tied to Active Sprints page

• report, which is tied to the Reports page

<div> We are viewing a board with id $board.id in $board.screen mode. </div>

Context parameters can also be used in web-item links, as shown below:

<web-item section="my.custom-board-tool-section" key="my-custom-web-item" weight="10">
    <label key="gh.rapid.operations.configure"/>
    <link>/secure/RapidView.jspa?rapidView=${board.id}</link>
</web-item>

(Optional) Add conditions

You can add a condition so that the web-section is only displayed if the board is in a specific mode. The following code shows an example where the web-section only displays on the Active Sprints/Kanban board. See the screenshot below for an example of this.

Note, the possible values for the mode parameter are plan, work and report.

<condition class="com.atlassian.greenhopper.client.web.condition.BoardModeCondition">
    <param name="mode">work</param>
</condition>

Screenshot: Active sprints view with a dropdown provided by a plugin

Congratulations! You’ve just added a dropdown to an Agile board in your Connect add-on.