Is Jira Cloud limitiing scriptrunner?

Question

Hey guys,

my organisations checks, whether we can move from jira datacenter to jira cloud.

Apparently the switch is not that easy. E.g. in Jira cloud it is apparently not possible to create dummy users, which is really helpful if you want to test something. Is this right?

Also we have some scheduled jobs (in scriptrunner) that fires once a year. As it seems we can only schedule in jira cloud on a monthly iteration... there is no possibility to use a cron expression like at jira datacenter, is that correct?

Are there furthermore limitations in scriptrunner? For us, jira is only from value, if we can automate processes, like we do with scriptrunner, if we cant do this properly we cant use jira.

In jira datacenter we had no problems at all.

Best.

Vishwas · Accepted Answer

Hey @dD

Let me try to answer the queries by summarizing your requirements.

1. Apparently the switch is not that easy. E.g. in Jira cloud it is apparently not possible to create dummy users, which is really helpful if you want to test something. Is this right? --> Yes we dont have such flexibility to create internal accounts to play around but you can use another email id have an atlassian account for that then can use as a dummy user.

2. Also we have some scheduled jobs (in scriptrunner) that fires once a year. As it seems we can only schedule in jira cloud on a monthly iteration... there is no possibility to use a cron expression like at jira datacenter, is that correct?  -->  Not sure on this but The scheduler jobs allows you to define a custom interval, from hourly to specific days of every month. Currently i could not find cron expression option.

As of now we don't have Behaviours, Services option in Jira Cloud. But they might be a feature soon available in Cloud

Please check this link to understand more on differences and feature table b/w Cloud and DC variant of add-on https://docs.adaptavist.com/sr4jc/latest/get-started/general-information/differences-between-scriptrunner-for-jira-server-and-jira-cloud

and https://docs.adaptavist.com/sr4jc/latest/scriptrunner-migration/feature-differences

Regards,

Vishwas

Kristian Walker _Adaptavist_ · Accepted Answer

Hi dD,

I can confirm that ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud is different to ScriptRunner Jira Server and does not have all the same features due to the fact that Atlassian only provides a rest API in Jira Cloud and this does not provide all of the API's that Jira server has in its Java API.

As the API's Atlassian provide are different between the cloud and server versions of Jira then we cannot build the same features between the two versions currently.

You can see more detailed information on the differences between the server and versions of ScriptRunner here as well as a feature parity table here which explains the feature differences between the cloud and server versions.

As for Scheduled Jobs, I can confirm you are correct and currently we only allow a schedule to be defined once a month, so to work around this you would need to define the script to run once a month and have an If statement in the code that only runs the code if the current month is a certain month, otherwise it would not run the code.

As for this requirement, we have a feature request board located here and I would ask you to raise this use case here so that our product owner can see this and prioritise it.

I hope this information helps.

Regards,

Kristian