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Make "Issue Link" a required field is not being enforced

Janine Roe

I set up a field configuration such that the "Issue Link" field is a required field for a specific type if issue. (What I'm trying to do is I created a "Test" type and I want to enforce that this issue type is linked to the Story(ies) it is testing).

I see that the drop down for Linked Issues is indeed requried. However the text field below it which lets you set the issue(s) is NOT required. There is always a default link type set, so in effect, you will have the Linked issue drop down type set (i.e. blocks, relates to etc), but it is not enforcing that you select an issue to link it to.

Is there a way to set both the Linked Issue drop down AND the issue field both to required? Or is there a way to check if that field is blank? There has to be a way to do that?

Thanks in advance.

Accepted answers

Peter Trubshaw

Please note the value of 'Tests' in the following is actually the Name of the link (in issue linking), not the outward or inward description (ie. Not what you see on the ticket itself)

issueLinkManager.getOutwardLinks(issue.getId())*.issueLinkType.name.contains('Tests')

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Ramiro P

In which version of Jira are you working? Have you tried to add a condition on the workflow asking for the value field?

Ramiro P

Yep, that option is only for versions before the Jira 5. Maybe in a plugin? I'm investigating a little. Do you have a condition called 'Script Condition'?

Ramiro P

Ok, so you can install the Script Runner plugin. It adds a condition called 'Script Condition' and there you have the possibility to add a Built-In script to check blank fields or something like that. It's a very good plugin, I use it a lot.

It has this Built-In script for example: Has at least one outward duplicate link

Here is some documentation.

Janine Roe

Version 5.0.1

I'm actually looking right now in the workflow at a condition for a transition, but I do not see an option for checking for a value field.

Peter Trubshaw

Please note the value of 'Tests' in the following is actually the Name of the link (in issue linking), not the outward or inward description (ie. Not what you see on the ticket itself)

issueLinkManager.getOutwardLinks(issue.getId())*.issueLinkType.name.contains('Tests')

alistairg

This solution does not work when the script is set as a validator for the create transition.

set code to below:

import org.apache.log4j.Category
    import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager
    import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
    import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue
    import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager
    import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
    import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
	import com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.IssueLink
	
	def Category log = Category.getInstance("com.oncreate.jira.groovy.ValidateFunction")
	log.setLevel(org.apache.log4j.Level.DEBUG)
	log.debug("id: " + issue.getId())
	
	log.debug(issueLinkManager.getOutwardLinks(issue.getId())*.issueLinkType.name.contains('Root Cause'))
	return issueLinkManager.getOutwardLinks(issue.getId())*.issueLinkType.name.contains('Root Cause')

and the logs generate "id: null" and false for the two log calls.

so obviously failing because the issue is not yet created...

could someone please confirm if there is a workaround to this or not for the create transition. i need this on create so having on another transition is not a valid solution for me (but might be for others of course).

Julien Benzimra

I'm interested by this validator, and facing the same difficulties.

@Alister, Indeed the link is not yet created. The best we could do is to test the values entered in the linked issue field. Indeed, after the custom validators have been checked, the system still controls that the link can be created before executing the transition, so it's still secured.

Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to access the values of this field ("linked issue" and "link type")

Any idea ?

JamieA

There is information about this scenario here: https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/3.1.5-SNAPSHOT/jira/recipes/workflow/validators/simple-scripted-validators.html#_checking_linked_issues

Bert Dombrecht

I realize this is an old post, but here in 2019, I was facing a similar issue as the original question: if a user transitions an issue to Closed with the 'Duplicate' resolution, I want the Linked Issue fields to be mandatory. I am doing this with a workflow validator, using Scriptrunner. My problem was indeed that the 'Linked Issues' field has a default, while the 'Issue' field (where you select an issue to link) is blank. The validator regarded this combination as not blank en thus proceeded with the transition.

This is how I got it to work:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.IssueLinkManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue;
import com.opensymphony.workflow.InvalidInputException

Boolean passesCondition = true;
def request = webwork.action.ActionContext.getRequest();

if (request) {

   IssueLinkManager linkMgr = ComponentAccessor.getIssueLinkManager();
   def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager();
   // get Resolution
   def resolution = issue.getResolution()?.getName();

   // Validator
   if (resolution == "Duplicate") {

      // Check for outward links of type 'Duplicate'
      def outwardDuplicates = linkMgr.getOutwardLinks(issue.getId())*.issueLinkType.name.contains("Duplicate");
      // Check for inward links of type 'Duplicate'
      def inwardDuplicates = linkMgr.getInwardLinks(issue.getId())*.issueLinkType.name.contains("Duplicate");
      // Get formfields
      String linkType = request.getParameter('issuelinks-linktype');
      String[] linkedIssues = request.getParameterValues('issuelinks-issues');

      if (outwardDuplicates || inwardDuplicates) {
         passesCondition = true; // Issue already linked as Duplicate
      } else if (linkType in ["duplicates", "is duplicated by"] && linkedIssues){
         passesCondition = true; // Duplicate issue selected in form
      } else {
         passesCondition = false; // No issue linked as Duplicate
         throw new InvalidInputException("Please link a duplicate issue.")
      }
   } else {
   passesCondition = true;
   }
}
return passesCondition;

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