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Unable to set the approver name into another mulitple user picker

Swarna Radha
Contributor
August 25, 2018

Hi,

I want to set the approver name in to a custom field B (mulitple user picker).

 

Is this possible?

Thanks

Swarna

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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August 25, 2018

There's a very similar question (with correct answer that will get you pointed in the right direction) over at https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/I-need-help-copying-the-assignee-field-to-a-user-picker-custom/qaq-p/872633#M279889

Swarna Radha
Contributor
August 25, 2018

Hi Nic,

 

I am getting error on the following line

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager
import com.atlassian.jira.event.type.EventDispatchOption
import com.atlassian.jira.event.type.EventDispatchOption
import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser

log.setLevel(org.apache.log4j.Level.DEBUG)


CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager();
def userCf = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Approved by (Dev)")
List<ApplicationUser> userAlreadyInCustomField = issue.getCustomFieldValue(userCf) //getting error
log.debug("User list: $userAlreadyInCustomField");
issue.setCustomFieldValue(userCf, userAlreadyInCustomField);
def user = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getLoggedInUser();
IssueManager issueManager=ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager();
issueManager.updateIssue(user,issue,EventDispatchOption.ISSUE_UPDATED,true);

 

thanks

Swarna

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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August 25, 2018

"getting error" does not tell us anything about the problem.  What is the error?

Swarna Radha
Contributor
August 26, 2018

Hi @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-,

 

I am unable to set the person who did the transition in the custom field .

Please see my code:

import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager
import com.atlassian.jira.event.type.EventDispatchOption


IssueManager issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager();
CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager();
CustomField CF = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Approved by IT- Appli Dev LM/TL");
List<ApplicationUser> users;
if(users == null)
users = new ArrayList<>();

users.add(ComponentAccessor.getUserManager().getUserByName("Username"))
issue.setCustomFieldValue(CF, users);

def user = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getLoggedInUser()
issueManager.updateIssue(user,issue,EventDispatchOption.ISSUE_UPDATED,true);

 

Error message:

2018-08-27 08:49:41,594 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: *************************************************************************************
2018-08-27 08:49:41,594 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: Script function failed on issue: ITCRD-3433, actionId: 91, file: <inline script>
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.ArrayList cannot be cast to com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.UserCFType.getDbValueFromObject(UserCFType.java:83)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.AbstractSingleFieldType.createValue(AbstractSingleFieldType.java:143)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.ImmutableCustomField.createValue(ImmutableCustomField.java:693)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.ImmutableCustomField.updateValue(ImmutableCustomField.java:410)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.ImmutableCustomField.updateValue(ImmutableCustomField.java:396)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.updateFieldValues(DefaultIssueManager.java:704)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.updateIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:669)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.updateIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:655)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.RequestCachingIssueManager.updateIssue(RequestCachingIssueManager.java:214)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager$updateIssue$4.call(Unknown Source)
 at Script541.run(Script541.groovy:25)

Thanks
Swarna
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Yana Stoliarova
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I am getting the error too. I tried (I believe) everything - no luck.

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