How to check/change text in a comment with behaviours from scriptrunner?

Kay Domschke

Challenge:
When a colleague enters a text in the comment, the script runner should use a behavior to check whether he has written the word <men>. If this is the case, the word <men> will be replaced by <men / women>.

Condition:
Under no circumstances should the wrong word be found in history. Therefore, the listener and post function are unfortunately not an option.

Currently:
I can do this for all possible fields without any problems, only the comments bitch.

Question:
Does anyone have any idea how I can use behavior to make sense of the comments? I haven't found anything going that way.

Ram Kumar Aravindakshan _Adaptavist_

Hi @Kay Domschke 

For your requirement, Behaviour may not be the correct approach.

The reason is that the Behaviour works only on specific screens, i.e. Create Issue, Update/Edit Issue, Assign Issue, and Workflow Transition screens.

For more information, please visit the Behaviour Limitation section in the ScriptRunner Documentation.

If you want the comment to be updated on the Workflow Transition screen, using the Behaviour, this is doable. For example:-

import com.onresolve.jira.groovy.user.FieldBehaviours
import groovy.transform.BaseScript

@BaseScript FieldBehaviours behaviours
def comment = getFieldById(fieldChanged)
def commentValue = comment.formValue.toString()

if (underlyingIssue != null) {
    if (commentValue.contains("men")) {
        def updatedValue = commentValue.replace("men", "men/women")
        comment.setFormValue(updatedValue)
    }
}

Please note, this sample code is not 100% exact to your environment. Hence, you will need to make the required modifications.

Below are a few test print screens:-

1)  First, the sample issue is created as shown below:-

2) Next, the issue is transitioned to In Progress, and the transition screen appears as shown below:-

3) Next, I am going to enter the word men into the comment field as shown below:-

4) Finally, after entering the word men, once I click out of the comment field, as expected, the word updates to men/women as shown below:-

I hope this helps to answer your question.

Thank you and Kind Regards,

Ram