Insight automation placeholders

David Sumlin_4luvfd

I have an object type roughly defined as such:

• Key
• Name
• Reference ID (this is a required unique #) 
• Parent (which is an object attribute pointing back to same object type)

 

I'd like to add another attribute called Parent Reference ID

I was thinking about creating an Insight automation rule which populates this attribute. I'm struggling with the syntax for the Attribute Value placeholder field. I was hoping it would be something like ${Parent.Reference ID} or ${Parent.\"Reference ID\"} or ${Parent.${Reference ID}}...but nothing I do seems to work.

Any ideas on how I can reference an attribute value of the referenced object?

 

** Yes, I realize that having the attribute named Reference ID is a poor design and I also realize that propagating it further into the Parent Reference ID is an even poorer design. :-(

 

PD Sheehan

I don't think the automation supports placeholders.

That only works in IQL.

You would need to create a groovy script to update/set the attribute 

Here is an example from the documentation: https://confluence.atlassian.com/insightapps/automation-1085180924.html

Here is a version of the sample script adapted for your use case and rendered a bit more groovy:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.riadalabs.jira.plugins.insight.channel.external.api.facade.ObjectFacade
import com.riadalabs.jira.plugins.insight.channel.external.api.facade.ObjectTypeAttributeFacade
import com.riadalabs.jira.plugins.insight.services.model.factory.ObjectAttributeBeanFactory

def objectFacade = ComponentAccessor.getOSGiComponentInstanceOfType(ObjectFacade)
def objectTypeAttributeFacade = ComponentAccessor.getOSGiComponentInstanceOfType(ObjectTypeAttributeFacade)
def objectAttributeBeanFactory = ComponentAccessor.getOSGiComponentInstanceOfType(ObjectAttributeBeanFactory)

def refOTAB = objectTypeAttributeFacade.loadObjectTypeAttribute(object.objectTypeId, 'Reference Id')
def parentRefOTAB = objectTypeAttributeFacade.loadObjectTypeAttribute(object.objectTypeId, 'Parent Reference Id')
def parentOTAB = objectTypeAttributeFacade.loadObjectTypeAttribute(object.objectTypeId, 'Parent')

def parentObjId = object.objectAttributeBeans.find{it.objectTypeAttributeId == parentOTAB.id}.objectAttributeValueBeans.first().referencedObjectBeanId
def parentObj = objectFacade.loadObjectBean(parentObjId)
def parentRefId = parentObj.objectAttributeBeans.find{it.objectTypeAttributeId == refOTAB.id}.objectAttributeValueBeans.first().value

/* Create the new attribute bean based on the value */
def childOAB = objectAttributeBeanFactory.createObjectAttributeBeanForObject(object, parentRefOTAB, parentRefId)
/* Load the attribute bean */
def objectAttributeBean = objectFacade.loadObjectAttributeBean(object.id, parentRefOTAB.id)
if (objectAttributeBean != null) {
/* If attribute exist reuse the old id for the new attribute */
    childOAB.setId(objectAttributeBean.id)
}
/* Store the object attribute into Insight. */
try {
def storedOAB = objectFacade.storeObjectAttributeBean(childOAB);
} catch (Exception e) {
    log.warn "Could not update object attribute due to validation exception: $e.message"
}

Remember if you try to attach that script to your automation rule, you will need to add the path of the script in the insight configuration white list