Behaviours - Trouble with visibility of fields base on selection of a dropdown field

Melanie Pasztor_af32iz

Hello!

I am trying to implement a script that adjusts the visibility of a few fields base on the selection of another single select dropdown field. Tried different methods found online and from the atlassian community responses to other similar questions, but fields do not hide from the start, and cannot tell if rest of code works without that. At least attach code to a field.  Initializer works for hiding the fields, but not conditional stuff like re-appearing them with a selection.

What I have presently:

def impactField = getFieldById("customfield_15890")
def severityField = getFieldById(getFieldChanged())

def selectedOption = severityField.getValue() as String
def isImprovementSelected = selectedOption == "Improvement"

impactField.setHidden(! isImprovementSelected)
impactField.setRequired(isImprovementSelected)

I've tried basing on this https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/latest/jira/behaviours-overview.html#undefined which does work, but this method does not work with customfields it seems. 

Most I can guess as causes is forgetting a syntax, or import declaration, or something to do with custom fields. Suggestions? Ideas? Example somewhere using customfields instead?

 

Thank you!

Melanie

 

 

PD Sheehan

I'm assuming you have this code in the Severity field since you're getting the field with getFieldChanged(). If you don't, then that's the root of your issue. You need the server-side script ON the field that you want to respond to user action. If you have multiple fields that could trigger your action, you need a server-side script on each of those fields.

I'm also assuming that your severity field is a single select and one of the options will have "Improvement" as its value.

So my thinking is that maybe  "severityField.getValue() as String" is not returning what you are expecting.

There are 2 ways you get debug that. You can throw some statements in the log and monitor that. But sometimes, I like to use the setHelpText() for debugging.

For example:

def impactField = getFieldById("customfield_15890")
def severityField = getFieldById(getFieldChanged())

def selectedOption = severityField.getValue() as String
def isImprovementSelected = selectedOption == "Improvement"

severityField.setHelpText("selectedOption=$selectedOption isImprovementSelected=$isImprovementSelected")

impactField.setHidden(! isImprovementSelected)
impactField.setRequired(isImprovementSelected)

This will show you in real-time and on-screen what your script is detecting.