Update Custom Field with multiple choice - ScriptRunner

[Daniel Sørensen]

Hi Everbody,

I want to update a CustomField that have multiply choice.

When I do an update on a Custom Field with only a single choice, I am doing this:

issue.update{ setCustomFieldValue(12606,"Some text")} - its working.

But If I want to update a field that can contains more the one value, I don't know how. I have tried this:

issue.update{ setCustomFieldValue(12603,["Some text", "Another text")}

But its not working.

[Matt Parks]

When I've needed to do this, I create a Collection<String> variable, populate that variable with the necessary values, and then update the custom field with that variable.

For example, I have a script listener that takes all of the values for a multi-select field in all of the issues linked to one issue. Then I populate that same field on the one issue with all of the collected values. Here's the code snippets that are applicable:

Collection<String> deployDBImpList = [] (that's open and closed brackets to create an empty Collection)

def dbImpField = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObjectsByName("Databases Impacted").first()

linkDBImpValues = mutIssue.getCustomFieldValue(dbImpField) as Collection<String>  (this gets all of the values from the Databases Impacted field from one of the linked issues. This is part of an 'each' function that cycles through all of the linked issues)

if (linkDBImpValues?.size() != 0 && linkDBImpValues !=null)

    {

        deployDBImpList.addAll(linkDBImpValues)

    }

The above line adds all of the values from the linked issue into the original Collection

deployDBImpList = deployDBImpList.unique()

issue.setCustomFieldValue(dbImpField, deployDBImpList)

These two lines get rid of any duplicates and then populate the field on the main issue with the values from all of the linked issues.

[Matt Parks]

Sorry about the formatting. I put my comments in italics. The code is in normal text.