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Pre-populate custom field with "current user" value

Christian Czaia [Decadis AG]

Hi everyone,

I've been looking everywhere to find a solution for my problem. I have a custom field (user picker) called "responsible" and I need it to be pre-populated with the "reporter" (or current user) value on issue creation. I can't just copy the value as part of a post-function since users should have the possibility to change the value right away (if they are not the person being responsible)

There used to be a plugin addressing the problem which seems to outdated.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-7947?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Aworklog-tabpanel

I've been trying to achieve this with the behaviours plugin but with no success.

FormField formAutor = getFieldByID("reporter")
FormField formAG = getFieldByName("Auftraggeber")


if(formAG.getFormValue() == ""){

 formAG.setFormValue(formAutor.getFormValue())
 
}

Any clues or is this a real piece of work? If yes, I have to check with my customer if this request is a must-have...

Thank you,

Christian

Accepted answers

Mizan

This should be possible using Behaviours plugin .

Try the below script , even add some logging (you will have to click on enable logging on the behaviours plugin )

FormField formAutor = getFieldByID("reporter")
FormField formAG = getFieldByName("Auftraggeber")
 
 
if(!formAG.getFormValue()){
 
 formAG.setFormValue(formAutor.getFormValue())
  
}

All comments

Mizan

This should be possible using Behaviours plugin .

Try the below script , even add some logging (you will have to click on enable logging on the behaviours plugin )

FormField formAutor = getFieldByID("reporter")
FormField formAG = getFieldByName("Auftraggeber")
 
 
if(!formAG.getFormValue()){
 
 formAG.setFormValue(formAutor.getFormValue())
  
}

Christian Czaia [Decadis AG]

Do I have to active another logging behaviour (set a logger to debug?)

Mizan

yes there is a enable logging link on the behaviours page

Christian Czaia [Decadis AG]

I know, just wanted to check if I had to set a JIRA logger to "debug" instead of warning in order to see the entries in the log file.

Alex Suslin

Have a look at this quesrtion: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/21273/how-can-i-populate-a-multi-select-custom-field-with-values-from-an-external-source

Christian Czaia [Decadis AG]

Got a typo:

FormField formAutor = getFieldBy<strong>Id</strong>("reporter")

FormField formAG = getFieldByName("Auftraggeber")

if(!formAG.getFormValue()){

formAG.setFormValue(formAutor.getFormValue())

}

I had ID :-)

Melanie Rogers

The script worked for me also in the Behaviours plugin. In addition, I would like to choose a different user in the custom field (user picker) if it is not the Reporter. Is there a simple "else" statement I could use?

JIRA_USER

Hi,

I have almost similar issue. Could someone please help me.

My issue is, I have a custom field and a system field (Reporter). I would have a value in my custom field and I want that value to auto populate to the Reporter field if that user(value) listed in custom field maches to the user list in Reporter field.

How do I do this?

Lubomir Styskala

Hello,

can someone advise me where to get Behaviours plugin, please? I have looked up on Atlassian marketplace but with no success. Nothing like Behaviours plugin for Jira.

Thank you in advance,

Nati Levi

It's part of the ScriptRunner plugin

Lubomir Styskala

Thank you, it helped.

Asha_Mariswamy

@Christian Czaia [Decadis AG] i just updated the code to latest classes and it worked

Thanks alot!!

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.onresolve.jira.groovy.user.FormField

FormField formAG = getFieldByName("latest user")

if(!formAG.getFormValue()){
formAG.setFormValue(ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getUser().getName())
}

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