Jira behavior not... behaving; works in some cases and not others.

Question

I have a use case where the project owners want a "disclaimer" message field displayed on issue create to all Jira users aside from those in their Jira user group. It correctly, doesn't appear if one is in the group that doesn't want to see it. However, the disclaimer will display correctly only if one lands directly on an issue create screen for that particular project. Also, if one changes the issue type, or changes to another project and back to the one that wants the disclaimer, it won't reappear.

The behavior is below. I have a log.debug in there that throws the true/false statement in the logfile. It is correctly evaluating whether the disclaimer field should display or not but I still get the "not" displayed when I really want it to as described above.

Any ideas?

import com.atlassian.jira.security.groups.GroupManager
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

def disclaimWarn = getFieldById("customfield_17206")
def aGroup = ComponentAccessor.groupManager.getGroup("groupBeingChecked")
def currentUser = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getLoggedInUser().getName()
def inGroup = ComponentAccessor.groupManager.getUserNamesInGroup(aGroup).contains(currentUser)
log.debug "${inGroup}"
if (inGroup) {disclaimWarn.setHidden(true)}
else {disclaimWarn.setHidden(false)}

Ilya Turov · Answer

Hey, I didn't have access to jira yesterday, but now I've got to it and tested.

Dunno what's really happening in your behaviour, but for me it worked.

Do you per chance have this field hidden in a field configuration? Because I believe behaviour won't override it, that's my only educated guess.

Mike Rathwell · Answer

Dang... thought you might have been onto something. I put that same script (albeit without your very good suggestion) in the initializer and... same result. The validation still validates correctly  but the results cited above still are present.

Mike Rathwell · Answer

Hi @Ilya Turov ,

I should've mentioned; I have this in as a server side script. I do not however have this in as an initializer. Perhaps I should put the same script in both places?