Setting field help text using scriptrunner behaviour

Question

I want to add description help text for the reporter field via behaviours in script runner to include html links as this can't be applied in the normal format of editing descriptions in JIRA admin set-up.

Please can you provide a dummy example that I can apply for a) Reporter (help text to a web link) and also b) to a custom field that is a user picker format.

Daniel Miks · Answer

Hi @Alicia Pena

In your second example it will work if you change the name Root cause in row 1 to ("customfield_xxxxx")

Where xxxxx is the field Id. Now you ask getFieldById not the get Field ByName.

Hope that helps!

/Daniel

Darin Klein_e3n341 · Answer

I found this example that sort of worked.  Formatting is still a problem, but it does show:

def desc = getFieldById("description")

def defaultValue = """
Problem Statement: An outline of the problem we're trying to solve or task to accomplish

Solution/How: How we plan to fix or solve the issue

Definition of Done: What constitutes this task being marked as completed

Stakeholders: Who are the stakeholders? DevOps/Engineering etc? Do we need buy-in or feedback to close the task? Should get confirmation of the task being completed up to stakeholders standards before moving to done status

Notes: Additional notes so others can read the ticket and grasp extra prerequisite information
""".replaceAll(/ /, '')

if (! underlyingIssue?.description) {
desc.setFormValue(defaultValue)
}

Alicia Pena · Answer

Thanks for the example. I'm trying to add default text to a Root Cause field.  I tried two different ways, but when I save it and open a jira it still doesn't show up.  I checked that my behaviors modules were enabled.   Anyone know what might be wrong?

Playing with behaviors plugin:

1.  I set the mappings to only Incident and Problem.

Mappings

Incident Management System (Incident)

Incident Management System (Problem)

2.  I tried this in the behaviour settings Initialiser section but nothing showed up on the jira form:

def rootcause = getFieldById("Root Cause")

def rootcauseValue = """

h2. Root Cause:

h2. Workaround (solution) Actions:

h2. Preventative/Corrective Actions:"""

if ( ! rootcause.getValue()) {

rootcause.setFormValue(rootcauseValue)}

3.  I also tried this in the behaviour settings initialiser section, but still didn't work:

getFieldById("Root Cause").setHelpText("Root Cause: 
Workaround solution Actions: 
 Preventative/Corrective Actions:")

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?