Style Workflow Exception Message for the User

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Hi community,

I’m a bit new in Jira development.

I implemented some simple workflow validators (for example - “customfield not empty validator”) for Jira dc 10.0.1

If my validate() fail I throw a WorkflowException with a message.

...throw new WorkflowException("############## The selected field: "+ fieldname + " must be filled. ###########");

The result for the user is:

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My question is - how can develop are more intuitive Error Screen for my users? It failed when I try to use HTML tags or include “\n” in the message.

The best case would be just to show the message styled with html tags.

thanks.

best regards
Thomas

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Ideally you should throw an com.opensymphony.workflow.InvalidInputException instead of a WorkflowException.
This still wont get you any styling. For that you could add a unique string to your exception message and add some JavaScript resource that checks for the unique string and replaces the default HTML with your custom HTML.

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thanks - i think that will work for me.