Use escalation service in Scriptrunner to copy a custom field value to another.

Question

Hello

Scriptrunner has this very cool "escalation service", which basically runs after a certain interval (in minutes), executes a JQL and for each one of the issues returned executes a certain action.

Now of course most of the users will use this tool to execute a transaction; there are also many very good built-in scripts for the most used purposes, like leaving a comment or updating a field with a certain value.

This is all great, but I would need to achieve something one step further: I would like to copy a custom field value to another custom field.

The code that I have been using in the following:

def cField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject("customfield_25401")
def cFieldValue = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cField)
issue.setCustomFieldValue('customfield_25407', cFieldValue)

However it returns an error

"No signature of method: com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueImpl.setCustomFieldValue() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String, com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.LazyLoadedOption)" [customfield_25407, XX] Possible solutions: setCustomFieldValue(com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField, java.lang.Object), getCustomFieldValue(com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField)"

I understand that the last line, is either using the wrong method or the arguments are not in the correct format.

Anybody able to help on this one?

Thanks a lot!

Mirco

mfabris · Answer

Awesome!

Thanks a lot Daniel, I will read everything and test with some examples

Have a nice weekend!

Daniel Yelamos [Adaptavist] · Answer

Hello Mirco.

We have a few examples of this in our documentation, for example this link about validating multi selects.

I would advice some preparation before trying to get actual functionality running, going through a few examples and understanding them.

Cheers!

Dyelamos

mfabris · Answer

Thank you Daniel

This seems a huge progress.

However I think there is still the problem of the different type of fields.

Source field has a string as value, and target field has an object. (single choice drop-down vs multi choice)

The error this time reads

No signature of method: com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueImpl.setCustomFieldValue() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String, com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.LazyLoadedOption) values: [customfield_25407, RS] Possible solutions: setCustomFieldValue(com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField, java.lang.Object), getCustomFieldValue(com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField)
groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueImpl.setCustomFieldValue()
 is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String, com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.LazyLoadedOption) 
values: [customfield_25407, RS] Possible solutions: setCustomFieldValue(com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField, java.lang.Object), 
getCustomFieldValue(com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField)

(sorry I had to paste this as code as the spam filter would block it otherwise)

I think this is not as basic as turning the object into string, is there an easy way to do it in groovy/jira?