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Create subtasks from multi select custom field values

Peter_423atg

I want a groovy script that will create a subtask or a series of subtasks if a multi select custom field has any values selected. So the subtask would use the multi select custom field values as summaries for the subtasks that would be created. I will set up the script to trigger if there is any change to the custom field, so it will need to check if there are any subtasks created using the custom field value as the summary also. Can anyone help on this?

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

I keep meaning to get this added to https://library.adaptavist.com and never quite find time.

Please note,

I'm not a proper coder, it probably could be more elegant
It was written for Jira 7.6-ish
I've not tested it properly on newer versions
My multi-select field is called "Animals"
It's minimal, creating issues with the absolute minumum - summary and the structrual stuff
If you use "issue.getSubTasks()", you should get a list of existing subtasks so you can try to parse them for existing ones. I've done something like that too, but it was messier and was predicated on having specific fields, so not much use to you probably

But it should get you most of the way there:

<br>import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue<br>import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue<br>import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser<br>import com.atlassian.jira.security.JiraAuthenticationContext<br>import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor<br>&nbsp;<br>// Never create a sub-task of a sub-task, it breaks, spectacularly<br>if ( issue.getIssueType().isSubTask() ) return 0<br>&nbsp;<br>def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()<br>def optionsManager = ComponentAccessor.getOptionsManager()<br>def issueFactory = ComponentAccessor.getIssueFactory()<br>def subTaskManager = ComponentAccessor.getSubTaskManager()<br>def constantManager = ComponentAccessor.getConstantsManager()<br>def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()<br>def currentUser = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getLoggedInUser()<br>&nbsp;<br>def subTaskTypeId = constantManager.getAllIssueTypeObjects().find{ it.getName() == "Sub-task type Name" }.id<br>List<String> summariesList = []<br>&nbsp;<br>def buildFromField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjects(issue)find {it.name == "Animals"}<br>def optionsFieldConfig = buildFromField.getRelevantConfig(issue)<br>def optionsFound = optionsManager.getOptions (optionsFieldConfig)<br>&nbsp;<br>optionsFound.each { optionName -><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;summariesList.add( optionName.getValue() + ": " + issue.getSummary())<br>}<br>&nbsp;<br>summariesList?.each { subTaskSummary -><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MutableIssue newSubTask = issueFactory.getIssue()<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;newSubTask.setSummary(subTaskSummary)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;newSubTask.setParentObject(issue)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;newSubTask.setProjectObject(issue.getProjectObject())<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;newSubTask.setIssueTypeId(subTaskTypeId)<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Map<String,Object> newIssueParams = ["issue" : newSubTask] as Map<String,Object><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;issueManager.createIssueObject(currentUser, newIssueParams)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;subTaskManager.createSubTaskIssueLink(issue, newSubTask, currentUser)<br>}<br><br><br>

Peter_423atg

Thanks Nic, I very much appreciate the help! I'll let you know how i get on as I test this out.

DQ DevOps

So ive made a couple of changes to the script but I'm getting the following error on my listener (issue updated event - I've added values to the field carrier represented by the customfieldID value)

Time (on server): Tue Jun 02 2020 11:06:18 GMT+0100 (British Summer Time)

The following log information was produced by this execution. Use statements like:log.info("...") to record logging information.

2020-06-02 10:06:18,135 ERROR [runner.AbstractScriptListener]: *************************************************************************************
2020-06-02 10:06:18,149 ERROR [runner.AbstractScriptListener]: Script function failed on event: com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent, file: null
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot get property 'id' on null object
 at Script25.run(Script25.groovy:18)

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue
import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser
import com.atlassian.jira.security.JiraAuthenticationContext
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

// Never create a sub-task of a sub-task, it breaks, spectacularly
if ( issue.getIssueType().isSubTask() ) return 0

def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
def optionsManager = ComponentAccessor.getOptionsManager()
def issueFactory = ComponentAccessor.getIssueFactory()
def subTaskManager = ComponentAccessor.getSubTaskManager()
def constantManager = ComponentAccessor.getConstantsManager()
def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()
def currentUser = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getLoggedInUser()

def subTaskTypeId = constantManager.getAllIssueTypeObjects().find{ it.getName() == "Subtask" }.id
List<String> summariesList = []

def buildFromField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjects(issue)find {it.name == "customFieldId=12300"}
def optionsFieldConfig = buildFromField.getRelevantConfig(issue)
def optionsFound = optionsManager.getOptions (optionsFieldConfig)

optionsFound.each { optionName ->
summariesList.add( optionName.getValue() + ": " + issue.getSummary())
}

summariesList?.each { subTaskSummary ->
MutableIssue newSubTask = issueFactory.getIssue()

newSubTask.setSummary(subTaskSummary)
newSubTask.setParentObject(issue)
newSubTask.setProjectObject(issue.getProjectObject())
newSubTask.setIssueTypeId(subTaskTypeId)

Map<String,Object> newIssueParams = ["issue" : newSubTask] as Map<String,Object>
issueManager.createIssueObject(currentUser, newIssueParams)
subTaskManager.createSubTaskIssueLink(issue, newSubTask, currentUser)
}

DQ DevOps

I've just made a change to remove the speech marks from the customfieldID and its giving me the following error

Screenshot 2020-06-02 at 11.11.41.png

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