Copy date field from parent to related issue

Peter Ellis_19ejpm

Hi,

I have the following code that is creating a related issue via a behaviour,

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()

if (getBehaviourContextId() == "create-change-pmo") {

    getFieldById("project-field").setReadOnly(true)

    getFieldById("issuetype-field").setReadOnly(true)

    def contextIssue = issueManager.getIssueObject(getContextIssueId())

    getFieldById("issuelinks-linktype").setFormValue("Linked by Change").setReadOnly(true)

    getFieldById("issuelinks-issues").setFormValue(contextIssue.key).setReadOnly(true)

    getFieldById("assignee").setFormValue(contextIssue.assigneeId).setReadOnly(false)

getFieldByName("Name of 3rd Party Issues")setHidden(true)

getFieldByName("Name of Dependant Project or Programme").setHidden(true)

getFieldByName("Other Details").setHidden(true)

}

This is from the ScriptRunner library - it works fine. However I also need to copy a customfield date from the parent and I am using this code,

getFieldById("customfield_33008").setFormValue(contextIssue.getCustomFieldValue(customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject("customfield_33008"))).setReadOnly((false))

This example attempts to put a long number into the date field (see attachments) I don't understand why that would be happening as they are both date fields of the same name. If I try changing the code (removing the FieldManger part it does nothing). can someone assist?

PD Sheehan

Behavious methods run against/witch the form data.

While the native jira methods run against/with database data.

So when you retrieve the value of the customfield using contextIssue.getCustomFieldValue() you get a "Timestamp" object (that a jira api call from the com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue class)

But the "setFormValue" needs a valid string since that's what the form expects.

Something like this should work:

def sourceDate = underlyingIssue.getCustomFieldValue(33008) //this uses a HAPI extension method that bypasses the need for the customFieldManager
getFieldById('customfield_33008').setFormValue(sourceDate.format('d/MMM/yyyy')).setReadOnly(true)