Custom field update is not working using Jira API

Mani Chellamuth

I have a date picker customfield and used below code to create/update it is value,

CustomField customField1 = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject("customfield_13961");
FieldLayoutItem fieldLayoutItem = ComponentManager.getInstance().getFieldLayoutManager().getFieldLayout(issue).getFieldLayoutItem(customField1);
DefaultIssueChangeHolder issueChangeHolder = new DefaultIssueChangeHolder();
customField1.updateValue(fieldLayoutItem, issue, new ModifiedValue(issue.getCustomFieldValue(customField1),date), issueChangeHolder);

I update the custom field in Issue resolve screen. The value is not updated. ChangeItem has the entered value in OldValue, not in NewValue. No records in CustomFieldValue table.

But when I reopen it, it is updated(the same logic is called again) and displayed in issue screen.

Any ideas?

Bhushan Nagaraj2

Hi Mani,

Here are the general steps again. You have most of it but you are missing the field.store() . Give it another try

@Override
    public Map<String, Object> getVelocityParameters(final Issue issue,final CustomField field,final FieldLayoutItem fieldLayoutItem) {
        final Map<String, Object> map = super.getVelocityParameters(issue, field, fieldLayoutItem);

        if (issue == null) {
            return map;
        }
        
        DefaultIssueChangeHolder issueChangeHolder = new DefaultIssueChangeHolder();
        
        FieldConfig fieldConfig = field.getRelevantConfig(issue);
        try
            {                                
                field.updateValue(fieldLayoutItem, issue, new ModifiedValue(field.getValue(issue), "My new value"), issueChangeHolder);
                field.store();
            }
            catch(Exception exc)
            {
                //Log error
            }
        return map;
    }

Cheers

Bhushan