Following some user feedback, I’ve made some changes to the JIRA plugin I wrote for dragging sub-tasks, first mentioned in this post Jira web-resource plugin to drag and drop subtasks.

If you’ve used it, you may have found it annoying that it was actually too easy to drag subtasks, causing page refreshes when they weren’t wanted! Copying and pasting from the subtask list was impossible. You could also drag issues in the Issue Navigator, although it didn’t achieve anything.

Just a few teething problems then.

First I put a delay in the jQuery sortable options. I also stopped the page from submitting if the list order had not been changed. This was a definite improvement, but users still wanted to copy text from the list, which wasn’t possible. So now I’ve limited the “drag handle” to the cell in the table where the up and down arrows appear for sorting. You can only drag if you click in that area, anywhere else won’t work. It’s still not ideal, as it’s not immediately obvious how to drag. Better ideas welcomed!

You can get the updated source from github: https://github.com/anorakgirl/subtask-dragger/releases/tag/v0.6.
Or if you don’t feel like packaging it yourself, there’s a jar for download here: subtask-dragger-0.6.jar. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

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