Scriptrunner tutorial for beginners available (for usage in Jira Software)?

Sandra Meessen

Hello,

Being a Scriptrunner beginner and a Java dummie, does anyone have any handy tutorials or instructions for me for getting familiar with (simple) scriptrunner coding? I don't have to get a Scriptrunner goeroe, but understand and write simple parts of coding. I have seen the Scriptrunner Introduction, but without any basis, that's not that simple. Thank you and kind regards.

Tarun Sapra

Indeed, Script Runner documentation definitely has scope for improvement when it comes to beginner tutorials, may be have script console embedded into the site so that new users can play around the various features of the plugin without breaking much. 

I have been using the plugin for over 5 years now and here's how I learned it.

Read the documentation quite well, it takes time and patience but that's the only way - https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/latest/jira/ 

And especially major features like workflows and listeners. Also, In the beginning I tried writing scripts in the "Script console", it's available when you install the plugin.

Script Runner uses Groovy which is basically a dynamic language executed on the JVM, some decent tutorial here - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/groovy/index.htm 

Recently I gave a webinar wherein I have presented all the major features of the plugin, along with lot of samples - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufNACtDxyD8

And last but not the least, is to read  the previous posts which you find on this forum related to the plugin as lot of posts have excellent code samples.