Use behavior to display the custom field context description

[Jodi Gornick]

I would like the ability to read a given Custom field Context (context created for designated projects) and use the description on the context to display in place of the standard description on the field.

I have used the behaviours to display a basic string, but I can not find anything in the Jira developers guide of how to get to this information.

I was hoping for something along the lines of:

getFieldByName("Select List 1").setDescription(CFContext.description)

Thanks,

Jodi

[Alejandro Suárez - TecnoFor · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jodi Gornick , you can use this:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.config.FieldConfig
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.config.manager.FieldConfigSchemeManager

CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
FieldConfigSchemeManager fieldConfigSchemeManager = ComponentAccessor.getFieldConfigSchemeManager()

CustomField cfSelecList1 = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(10802L) // Change this with the ID of your SelectList CF (XXXXXL)
FieldConfig fieldConfig = cfSelecList1.getRelevantConfig(issueContext)
String description = fieldConfigSchemeManager.getConfigSchemeForFieldConfig(fieldConfig).getDescription()

getFieldById("customfield_10802").setDescription(description) // Change this with the ID of your SelectList CF ("customfield_XXXXX")

 Check the comment on the code to modify it.

Regards!

[Jodi Gornick]

I had to make a couple changes to make it more versatile, but this put me on the right path so thank you!

Created as a Behaviour with the following code:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.config.FieldConfig
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.config.manager.FieldConfigSchemeManager

CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
FieldConfigSchemeManager fieldConfigSchemeManager = ComponentAccessor.getFieldConfigSchemeManager()

CustomField cfSelecList1 = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(getFieldChanged())
def formField = getFieldById(getFieldChanged())
FieldConfig fieldConfig = cfSelecList1.getRelevantConfig(issueContext)
String description = fieldConfigSchemeManager.getConfigSchemeForFieldConfig(fieldConfig).getDescription()

formField.setDescription(description)