Warn that prior subtask not complete

LaurieC

We have a set of subtasks that need to be completed in a certain order. The subtasks are often assigned to different people. I would like to show a warning if someone starts subtask 3 before subtask 2 is completed.

We do have Scriptrunner. Is there a way to accomplish this?

Hyrum Steffensen {Appfire}

Hello Laurie,

I have an idea you may like, but I have only tested it out on Power Scripts. First I will post the equivalent script in Groovy based on this Adaptavist documentation on validators and this one on subtasks.

The idea here is to loop through all the subtasks and break the loop once the current subtask is found. If the loop completes, throw an validator error. 

def parent = issue.getParentObject().getIssueTypeObject().getName()

def subTasks = parent.getSubTaskObjects()
subTasks.each {

    if (it.getKey() == issue.getKey()) {

        break;

    }

    if (it.getStatusObject().getName() != "Done") {

        throw new InvalidInputException("subtasks","Not all previous subtasks completed")

    }

}

I did try this out on Power Scripts. Here is the script I used. Please see this documentation on subtasks routine and this one on validators.

string [] subtasks = subtasks(parent);

for (string subtask in subtasks) {

    if (subtask == key) {

        break;

    }

    if (subtask.status != "Done") {

        return false, "status", "Previous subtasks have not been completed";

    }

}

Full disclosure, I am a Product Engineer for Power Scripts and work for Anova Apps, an Appfire company.