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Handlebar supports full logic expressions such as if, equals as well as expression in expressions. Find more information on the template language here however most users do not need the details.
Hello World Example
As an example we want to populate some of below Jira Issue MOON-1 data into a Word document.
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Handlebar expressions are easily recognised with the format {{ }} or {{{ }}}. There are more than 140 Jira handlebar expressions groupedpre-available handlebar Jira data fields grouped in the add-on. We recommend to use the search to find the right ones. In this example search for box and in the example we add key, summary and description by searching and then click clicking on the items.
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Press Finally press the “Populate“ button and the Jira data is added to your populated into the template. Press Then press “Restore“ to get go back to the template again.
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Example explained
Each Jira Issue is a Javascript JSON object and the handlebars extract information from that object. Viewing the object is available in Jira and will soon also be available from the Word add-on.
Below you find the full handlebar expression sends to the backend server. At the top there is an #each statement that loops over all Issues configured in the Word Issue tab. To improve usability the #each loop is automatically added by the add-on if missing in template. However for full control add one or multiple loops to the template.
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{{#each jira.issues}}
{{key}} - {{fields.summary}}
{{{jHtml renderedFields.description}}}
{{/each}} |