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Why does a custom field not update in zendesk when updating it using a workflow screen

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Hi, I've got Jira and Zendesk integrated and have several custom fields mapped between the two systems. I've noticed that when I update a custom field on 'x' screen during a workflow transition that the value is not synchronized through to Zendesk (other non custom fields do sync). The custom field does however successfully synchronize when the update is made on the view screen or edit ticket screen.

Any ideas? Solutions?

Thanks, Stash

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Luke Garner

Hi Stash,

My organisation had fallen a victim of the the same problem - Cloud Diagnostics logs indicate theat whenever there is any user input in the transition screen, the plugin tranmits old value of the custom field to Zendesk as opposed to the new one. New value is sent correctly when no data has been input in the transition screen.

While the plugin itself is supplied by CustomWare, it's Zendesk that actually supports it. I have reported this problem to Zendesk at the beginning of November but haven't heard back about any solution or workaround being available.

Expecting things to go that way (I imagine there are many layers such a request has to go through until it reaches developers actually working on the plugin - especially when they are from a separate company) I resorted to writing custom replacement for this bit of functionality: transitions' post-functions update custom field in Jira and generate custom events; custom event listener in Jira reacts to those events and updates Zendesk with custom field's value.

I hope this helps,

Rafal

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Luzia Mendes2

I guess you need to contact Zendesk for that. See, JIRA is not responsible for Zendesk's behavior, neither Atlassian knows how Zendesk built the plugin that integrates both applications.

Maybe there is a bug in JIRA's code, but Zendesk will have to investigate and report that.

The Zendesk plugin should monitor JIRA's behavior and push changes into Zendesk...if it's failing, it's the plugin's fault.

Luke Garner

Hi Stash,

I hope this helps,

Rafal

unknown

Thanks, yes I've taken this through Zendesk. It is that the event's aren't being captured when fired by the plug-in.

Elisa Menegatti

Hi Rafal, can u explain more the solution that you have applied to solve that issue? i'm trying to replicate it.

unknown

HI Elisa, I saw your comment and remembered I needed to update this post further. I figured out what was wrong and now have it working perfectly. I discovered that if you are only using a 'generic event' on your workflow transition then, any custom fields you have on that screen won't be synchronized with Zendesk. You need to use another event, like issue updated or issue assigned for example.

Let me know if you need any help, I've had to become an expert with the integration to get it all to work to meet our needs.

Cheers, Stash

Fabrizio Galletti

hi, i'm a coworker of elisa and i'm studing tthis solution, thanks for your advice.

now i'm trying to figure out how to sync the status because zd isn't trigger any customlistener (like groovy or toolkit)

unknown

Hi Fabrizio, where are you trying to sync the status? from a workflow or other? The status in JIRA and Zendesk with the integration, by default just sync for the values open and solved, which is a pain because it means that JIRA will 'solve' Zendesk tickets when a JIRA ticket is resolved. We don't want this to happen in our workflow, so I've used a custom field in JIRA and mapped bidirectionally, the Zendesk status field to this so that we can control it correctly. I've implemented some other fields and triggers as well to get our desired behavior between the two systems.

I can help further if you like, let me know what you are trying to achieve.

Fabrizio Galletti

Ah ok, i know that jira status is readonly, so i've another field status that i sync with ZD.

I was interested in trigger that u have implemented. How can this be done? When ZD add a comment or update a field he doesn't arise custom listener but only the standard commented and updated issue listener.

Luke Garner

(comment part 2/2)

Therefore, in order to obtain the details of changes, plugin:

A) obtains id of current change group,

iterates through ALL changes in the history of current issue and picks out only those changes whose 'change group id' matches the one referenced by current issue event.

Change group id can be obtained from a map (object of type GenericValue) returned by methodIssueEvent.getChangeLog(); it's associated with the key "id".

Changes in the history of an issue can be retrieved by callingChangeHistoryManager.getAllChangeItems( issue ) method.

Note that updates to comments seem to be handled somewhat different so the above is unlikely to work for them.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Rafal

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