Field behavior based on previous field value

[Jay Kantaria]

I am looking to do this without any plug-in.  No script runner for now.  Any help will be much appreciated.

I have three custom fields that I want to introduce.

Field A: Tool select (Jira, BB, etc)

Field B: Jira choices

Field C: BB Choices

Based of the value selected in Field A,  I want to prompt users for Field B or Field C, Make the field required, make other filed gray out (not available to select)

I could not find a way to write groovy scripts.  Any help on writing server side groovy scripts will be appreciated as well.

Thanks,

Jay

[Ravi Varma]

Hi @Jay Kantaria,

You should make your life simple by using "Cascading select" instead of this approach.

You can push "JIRA" and "BB" as parent options and populate the Child options with corresponding JIRA options and BB options. 

The configuration screens are intuitive and self explanatory

Regards,

Ravi Varma

[Jay Kantaria]

Thank Ravi for reply

But... Cascading select is paid plug-In correct?  I don't see it in my list of custom filed type menu as I don't have any plug-Ins install as this is DOD(clean) environment.

Any other suggestion without doing it with third party plug-Ins?

[Ravi Varma]

Hi @Jay Kantaria,

Cascading Select is available in native JIRA. You don't need any third party apps.

Please refer the documentation PDF here - 

• https://product-downloads.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/documentation/JIRASOFTWARESERVER071-290216.pdf
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver/jira-software-server-7-13-documentation-938845020.html

Regards,

Ravi Varma

[Jay Kantaria]

Hi @Ravi Varma 

Would you land me some help?  I looked through the pdf but it is mainly talking about searching and importing.  

How would I go about creating these two fields so they are cascading select type?

[Ravi Varma]

Hi @Jay Kantaria,

It would be only one cascading field that will cater to your requirement. I am attaching the screens.

Step1: Select the cascading select list type

Step2: Give it a name

Step3:View custom fields shows the created cascading select field

Step4:Cascading select configuration page

Step5:Configuration screen for Parent and child options

Step6:Child options for BB

Step 7: Create screen child options for JIRA parent option

Step 8: Create screen child options for BB parent option

This should work for you now.

Regards,

Ravi Varma

[Jay Kantaria]

@Ravi Varma

This works.  Thank you so much.  Any way to remove the value "NONE" from options?

[Jay Kantaria]

When I select Jira, I would like the option field to clear out and required.  Currently it has default value as "NONE" 

[Ravi Varma]

Hi @Jay Kantaria,

Please look at the following links :

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-32463 (Please upvote this tickets so that Atlassian can prioritize this as a feature)
• A dirty trick - You can remove the code pertaining to None from velocity template. Refer

1. https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Adaptavist-questions/Remove-quot-None-quot-from-cascading-select-list/qaq-p/689868
2. https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions/how-do-i-remove-the-none-option-from-a-cascading-select/qaq-p/186237 

If you find my response useful, then can you please accept my answer.

Regards,

Ravi Varma