After the steps from the Configuration page are complete, configure the Data Table Custom Field following the steps below:

• Access the 'DataTable Custom Field' configuration page from Administration->'Add-ons' menu, 'DataTable Custom Field' sub-menu:

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• The first parameter to configure is the Thread Local Caching:

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After you complete the steps from the Configuring Power Database Fields PRO™ page, configure the data table custom field following the steps below. You do that on the following pages:

• Database general configuration
• Datatable Custom Field configuration page

Database General Configuration

1. Log into your Jira as Admin.
2. Go to Administration > Add-ons > DataTable Custom Field configuration page.
3. Configure the parameters on this page.
   1. Thread Local Caching
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      Because multiple calls to get the value of a SIL Script Custom Field for a certain issue are inevitable, we implemented an option to generate the value only once per HTTP request. This

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1. 2. Custom Field
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1. 1. the Data Table Information type, see example below.

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• Choose from the available options for 'Data Source' like in the image below:

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• If Data Source is Database, another 2 parameters are available to be configured: - JNDI name and SQL Query.(Please see the Configuration page for details.)
• If Data Source is set to SIL, SIL Script is the editor where you should type a script like in the image below:  

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Datatable Custom Field configuration page

After you complete steps on the general configuration page, perform the Datatable configuration.

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1. Data Source – select data source, SIL™ or database.
   
   1. If you selected "Database" for the Data Source field, additional parameters become available to be configured, for more details see Configuration page.
      • JNDI name
      • SQL Query

   2. If you selected "SIL" for the Data Source field, type a script  in the SIL Script editor.
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2. Click Save.

See also

Data Source Configuration

What's next

After you configure the data tables, see User Guide for details on how to use database custom fields.