Groovy postfunction: obtain reference to epic after creating an issue from

AK_3om9is

Hi,

I am working on a groovy script which runs when an issue is created under Epic and copies some custom field values from the epic to the created issue.

For Ex. When issue type 'Story' is created under epic, xyz CUSTOM field value from epic should be copied to Story.

But I am not able to get hold of the reference to epic in the script ( Tried and failed to get the links using IssueLinkManager class; the method getLinkCollection() returned an empty list).

Code I used:

List links = issueLinkManager.getLinkCollection(issue,user).getAllIssues()

Could some please tell how can we get reference to the linked Epic ?

Thanks,

Aravind

Chris Kent

I had the same problem, but I did manage to get a link to the epic when the user story is created (using the new Agile board "create issue in epic")

The trick to getting this working is in the create screen for the User story, you MUST include the "Epic Link" field in the Screen configuration. This then makes the epic link custom field available in the post script function.

Then I used the following code to get to the epic...

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue;

CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager();

if (issue.getIssueTypeObject().getName() == "Story" ) {
	CustomField epicLink = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName('Epic Link');
	Issue epic = issue.getCustomFieldValue(epicLink);
	if(epic)
	{
		issue.setFixVersions(epic.getFixVersions());
                .....
	}
}