How to write postfunction to add values in a custom field based on values selected in another field

Tennille Noach

Hi all,

I would really love some help on this, and hopefully not too technical so that I can implement on my own.   Please find details below which hopefully give enough information for one of you talented people to help me!

 

I have a custom field called 'Location Managers' which is a multi User Picker field.

I have another custom field called 'Locations to be Accessed' which is a multi Select list. The values in this list appear in the format:

- 'Main building - Basement'
- 'Main building - Vault'   
- 'Annexe building - Basement'
- 'Annexe building - Store'   etc  etc
(There are two grouping of locations in the list, those relating to the Main Building and those relating to the Annexe)

 

I want to write a post-function(s) on the Create transition to achieve the following:

IF the 'Locations to be Accessed' field contains a one of the 'Main Building' locations then add 'Manager 1' and 'Manager 2' names to the 'Location Managers' field.

IF the 'Locations to be Accessed' field contains a one of the 'Annexe building' locations then add 'Manager 3' and 'Manager 4' names to the 'Location Managers' field.

 

Thanks in advance,

Tennille

Kyle Moseley

Try something like this after the initial create issue post-function:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder

def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
def locationsField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Locations")
def managersField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Managers")

def locations = issue.getCustomFieldValue(locationsField) as List
locations = locations*.toString()
def managers = [] as List

locations.findAll{ it ->
 if (it.contains("Site A")) {
 managers << ComponentAccessor.getUserManager().getUserByKey("jsmith")
 log.debug "site a"
 }
 if (it.contains("Site B")) { 
 managers << ComponentAccessor.getUserManager().getUserByKey("fphillips")
 log.debug "site b"
 }
}

managers = managers.unique()

managersField.updateValue(null, issue, new ModifiedValue(issue.getCustomFieldValue(managersField), managers), new DefaultIssueChangeHolder())

 This does not account for errors, null values and things like that. So this would just get you started but you will definitely want to refine it.