Populate custom user picker (single user) with issue creator upon issue creation

Question

Hi all,

One of our tech leads wants a custom user picker field called "Assigned QA" to automatically be filled with the person who created the issue whenever issues are created in his software project.

What I thought would work was using a Set field value (JMWE add-on) post function to the Create-to-Open transition where the issue.creator would be pulled and populated into the Assigned QA field when an issue is initially created.

This apparently hasn't worked. Is there something that I'm missing in the Groovy value I set?

Ian Balas_egon36 · Answer

* @John Funk When I tested the script, I didn't seem to get an error when I ran it as a Groovy template. I would get "null" returned, though
* @David Fischer I did just set my script to Groovy Expression and @Aditya Sastry I shall try that if my current test doesn't work. I've yet to receive feedback from the tech lead so I'll update as I hear back.

Thanks all for the input!

Aditya Sastry · Answer

You can also try currentUser in the value with same value type.

David Fischer · Answer

Hi Ian,

it looks like you selected the "Constant or Groovy Template" value type, but you provided a Groovy expression as the value.

Change the Value Type to "Groovy Expression" and it should work.