Limit sub-tasks

kdickason

I have ScriptRunner with Jira Data Center.   Has anyone figured out a script that can limit which sub-tasks my user can choose from based on what Issue Type they have created. Not all my sub-tasks are appropriate for all the issue types on my project. Atlassian indicates they do not support this, so I was hoping I could script something.  I'm terrible with scripting so I really need something with detailed instructions if you can help me.  I have 3 issue types (A, B, C)) and I have 3 sub-task types. (a, b, c).  I want to limit each Issue Type so a user can only pick the same sub-task type (Issue Type A allows creation of only sub-task a, Issue Type B allows creation of only sub-task b, Issue Type C allows creation of only sub-task c.)  Help?? 

Radek Dostál

That's something that needs to be done by behaviours as Jira otherwise doesn't support this in any way (other than workflow errors).

 

Working with these 2 as inspiration:

 # https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/6.20.0/jira/recipes/behaviours/restricting-issue-types.html

 # https://docs.adaptavist.com/sr4js/6.25.0/features/behaviours/behaviours-examples/sub-task-default-field

 

I tested the following which seems to work:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.config.IssueTypeManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.issuetype.IssueType
import com.onresolve.jira.groovy.user.FormField
import static com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueFieldConstants.ISSUE_TYPE

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

@BaseScript FieldBehaviours fieldBehaviours

Long parentIssueId = null

FormField parentIssueIdField = getFieldById("parentIssueId")
if (parentIssueIdField != null && parentIssueIdField.getFormValue() != null)
    parentIssueId = Long.valueOf(parentIssueIdField.getFormValue().toString())

if (parentIssueId == null || underlyingIssue != null) {
//Either, this is a not a sub-task; or, it already exists - do nothing
    return
}

IssueManager issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()
String parentIssueTypeName = issueManager.getIssueObject(parentIssueId).getIssueType().getName()

IssueTypeManager issueTypeManager = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(IssueTypeManager)
Collection<IssueType> allIssueTypes = issueTypeManager.getIssueTypes()
List<IssueType> allowedIssueTypes = new LinkedList<>()

switch (parentIssueTypeName) {
case "Task":
        allowedIssueTypes.add(allIssueTypes.find {
            it.getName() == "Task Sub-task"
        })
break
    case "Story":
        allowedIssueTypes.add(allIssueTypes.find {
            it.getName() == "Story Sub-task"
        })
break
    case "Feature":
        allowedIssueTypes.add(allIssueTypes.find {
            it.getName() == "Feature Sub-task"
        })
break;
default:
//do nothing, underlying parent issue is not listed
        return
}

FormField issueTypeField = getFieldById(ISSUE_TYPE)
issueTypeField.setFieldOptions(allowedIssueTypes)

 

Test set up was just a custom Behaviour, mapping to the project (all issue types), and above is an initializer.

 

Needless to say, I recommend not going down this route, because maintaining all of the different groovy scripts can be a nightmare, and they are very difficult to find when they start misbehaving.