Auto populate the custom field with the Reporter on transition screen

jira_admin_cu

Hi Team,

Is it possible to automatically fill in the custom field (a single-user picker) with the Reporter's name when transitioning from status A to status B? When we move from A to B, a transition screen appears with the custom field already present, we want the Reporter's name to be automatically populated in that custom field.

Hyrum Steffensen {Appfire}

EDIT: Scriptrunner example updated based on further testing.

Hello Lakshmi,

You can set a default value for a single user picker using Scriptrunner Behaviors or Power Scripts Live Fields. I will detail both below.

Scriptrunner

To limit the screen to a particular transition, you could do something like:

// if (fieldScreen.name == "Approved Screen") {

 def reporter = underlyingIssue.getReporter().name
 getFieldByName("userPickerSingle").setFormValue(reporter)

// }

 For a full example with the necessary class imports, see:

https://library.adaptavist.com/entity/limit-behaviour-to-screen

To get the name of the transition print it out during a transition. See:

https://scriptrunner-docs.connect.adaptavist.com/jiracloud/script-console.html

Power Scripts

The main script would look something like the following. Change "trans_21" to the name of the transition and "singleUserPicker" to the name or id of the Single User Picker.

if (argv["screen"] == "trans_21") {
    lfSet("singleUserPicker", reporter);
}

  To get the name of the transition, print out the value for argv["screen"] during the transition. For example:

printInFile("debug.txt", "Screen value: " + argv["screen"]);

See this documentation on using Live Fields:

https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PSJ/pages/15488008/Live+Fields 

Let us know how it goes!

Regards,

Hyrum

Please note that I work for Appfire and support Power Scripts.