Question regarding custom scripted field

Question

Hi All,

I'm quite new to Scriptrunner and Groovy and am running into a snag with a custom field.

This field needs to take values from 2 other custom fields called Impact and probability, with dropdown values of (1, 2, 3, 4,) for each and multiply the values (impact * probability).

I have tried scripting it, but my result is not making sense. max result should be 16, I got 102,272,765!

Is anyone able to help me identify where the issue is and give pointers on how to fix it?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Benjamin_tmh9yg · Accepted Answer

Hi @Sasha Pilote ,

Take a look at your log to see what value you got for log.debug.

Here's a post on an approach to multiply custom field.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Make-a-scripted-field-multiply-together-the-values-of-3-custom/qaq-p/1299362

-Ben

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted Answer

It is because your Impact and Probability fields are not numbers.  Their contents are options with names that are numbers, and you can't cast an option to a number because the data in the option is not numeric.

Try

def ImpactFieldAValue = (issue.getCustomFieldValue(Impact).getName() ?: 0) as float

instead.  That assumes your options all have plain numbers as their description text though.