ScriptRunner Initalizer Behaviour to not pre-fill if value present

Mark Iveson_ielxyf

Morning,

I'm setting up a Behaviour with an initalizer that I want to check if a specific custom field has a value or not (null). In the instance where there is value already present in the custom field then I don't want the initalizer to run.

// Retrieve the value of the customfield

def outcome = getFieldByName('Board Summary Outcome for Applicant').getValue()

if(outcome != null ) {return}

// It's null so let's add some default text

getFieldByName('Board Summary Outcome for Applicant').setFormValue("Dummy Text Here.")

 

The code above looks reasonable however what I'm finding is it works perfectly when there is no value in the custom field (tick) but if the field has an entry (i.e. text) then that text is updated with the "Dummy Text Here" which is not the behaviour that I want.

Any help would be much appreciated, for whatever reason the outcome variable always resolves to null

PD Sheehan

Behavior initializer run before the fields are populated from the data associated with the issue (from the database).

So to check if a field already has a value in the initializer, you want to look at the binding variable "underlyingIssue" and load those values from that issue object

Something like

def fieldName = 'Board Summary Outcome for Applicant'
def outcome
if(underlyingIssue){ 
  def cf = ComponentAccessor.customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjects(underlyingIssue).find{it.name == fieldName}
  def outcome = underlyingIssue.getCustomFieldValue(cf)
} else {
   //underlyingIssue is null on issue create screen
   outcome = ''
}
if(!outcome){
getFieldByName(fieldName).setFormValue("Dummy Text Here.")
}