How to default the value of a custom field on a sub-task from the parent using ScriptRunner

[Valerie Rouda]

I'm using ScriptRunner to default fields from the parent when a sub-task is created.  I have a custom field that is a dropdown and I'm having trouble getting this field on the sub-task to default to the value from the parent.  I'm used the sample code from Script Runner, making just a few modifications for the fields I'm interested in:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor 
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.Option 
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField 
import com.atlassian.jira.web.util.OutlookDate 
import com.atlassian.jira.web.util.OutlookDateManager 
import com.onresolve.jira.groovy.user.FieldBehaviours 
import com.onresolve.jira.groovy.user.FormField 
import groovy.transform.BaseScript 
import java.sql.Timestamp 
import static com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueFieldConstants.* 

@BaseScript FieldBehaviours fieldBehaviours 

FormField field = getFieldById(getFieldChanged()) 
FormField parent = getFieldById("parentIssueId") 
Long parentIssueId = parent.getFormValue() as Long 


if (!parentIssueId || field.getFormValue()) { 
// this is not a subtask, or the field already has data return 
} 

def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager() 
def parentIssue = issueManager.getIssueObject(parentIssueId) 
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager() 

// REMOVE OR MODIFY THE SETTING OF THESE FIELDS AS NECESSARY 
OutlookDate outlookDate = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(OutlookDateManager).getOutlookDate(Locale.getDefault()) 

getFieldById(ASSIGNEE).setFormValue(parentIssue.assigneeId) 

// IF YOU DON'T WANT CUSTOM FIELDS COPIED REMOVE EVERYTHING BELOW HERE 
// IF YOU ONLY WANT SOME FIELDS INHERITED ADD THEM TO THE LIST BELOW, OR LEAVE EMPTY FOR ALL 
// eg ['Name of first custom field', 'Name of second custom field'] 

List copyCustomFields = ['customfield_100'] 
List<CustomField> parentFields = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjects(parentIssue) 

for (def cf in parentFields) { 
if (copyCustomFields && !copyCustomFields.contains(cf.name)) { 
return } 

def parentValue = cf.getValue(parentIssue) as List<Option> 
if (!parentValue) { 
return } 

getFieldById(cf.id).setFormValue(parentValue) 
log.debug("parentValue: ${parentValue?.class} for type ${cf.name}") 

if (parentValue instanceof Timestamp) { 
getFieldById(cf.id).setFormValue(outlookDate.formatDMY(parentValue)) 
} else if (parentValue instanceof Option) { 
getFieldById(cf.id).setFormValue(parentValue.optionId) 
} else if (parentValue instanceof List && parentValue[0] instanceof Option) {
getFieldById(cf.id).setFormValue(parentValue*.optionId)
 } else { getFieldById(cf.id).setFormValue(parentValue) 
} 
}

[Joshua Yamdogo @ Adaptavist]

Valerie,

Have you made sure that this script is NOT being used in an initializer of the behaviour? You need to attach this script to a field, e.g. description. From our docs: "This script hinges on the parentIssueId being present in the form. As such, you will need to associate the script with a visible field. It will not work as an initialiser."

Regards,

Josh

[Valerie Rouda]

Correct.  The script is attached to a field on the screen, not used as an initializer.  I was able to get non-custom fields like assignee to work, but was getting inconsistent results for the custom field unfortunately.   I ended up finding another solution since I couldn't get this to work. 

[Joshua Yamdogo @ Adaptavist]

Hi Valerie,

I'm sorry to hear that!  If you're still interested in trying to make it work, I have some questions for you that might help me try to think of a fix.

You mentioned you want to set a custom field that is a drop-down. Is this a standard custom field, as in the standard Select List custom field in Jira? Or does this drop-down field come from another plugin?

Which version of ScriptRunner are you on? I see you're trying to use one of the examples in our documentation here: https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/latest/jira/recipes/behaviours/subtask-default-fields.html

Your code has a logging statement 

log.debug("parentValue: ${parentValue?.class} for type ${cf.name}") 

You might look in the atlassian-jira.log and see what's being logged. That might give us some clues as to what's going wrong.

Regards,

Josh