Question

We would like to have a date/timestamp automatically inserted whenever an entry is made in a custom long text field. Is this possible?

Answer 1

That's not something that is possible out-of-the-box with FogBugz and the Custom Fields plugin.

Your best bet would probably be to create a custom plugin that provides that functionality.

As a workaround, you can use the following BugMonkey customization to add a button next to your long text field that will insert a timestamp when clicked:

name:          Long text timestamp keyboard shortcut
description:   Adds a button for inserting a timestamp into the "Log" text field
author:        Dane Bertram
version:       1.0.0.0

js:

var textfield = $('#logv11');
$('<input type="button" value="Append timestamp">')
.click(function(){
    textfield
    .val(textfield.val() + '\n' + new Date() + '\n')
    .focus();
})
.insertAfter(textfield);

Note: To use this, you'll need to find the id attribute for your long text field and replace logv11 in the code above with that value.

You can do this by inspecting your long text field with FireBug or a similar tool for your browser: