Pre-populate Fields from URL

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@Yatish Madhav

Use a Scriptrunner Initialiser. There's templates in the adaptavist library.

Will just add, if you want to help your users a bit, use a DB query to import your custom fields and their options into Assets, then you can put an Assets widget on a service desk KB page and people can then see the ID's of things.

Like • Josh likes this

Thanks @Steve Letch - that is assuming we have and pay for ScriptRunner for Jira right? We do not have that.

@Yatish Madhav

You could set a default value in the field but that would limit you to having that value set globally.

One important note, I had to all lowercase "customfield_" in the url query string to get this to work.

I created a web tool at https://booniepepper.gitlab.io/jira-former/

As of posting it can just do the basic summary and description filling (code heads: feel free to contribute or send me issues etc).

Does anyone know if there a way to make the description handle newlines well?

This works fine, but it does not work when using forms. And how would you have fields with conditions (show/hide from values selected in other fields) in a "Request type". It would require a lot of request types if not using forms with field conditions.

Would really be nice if pre populate worked with forms also.

Like • Steven Cavanagh likes this

As others have mentioned, we need the ability to use Asset fields as the pre-filled value. The half-measures from Atlassian and then calling it a complete solution need to be addressed.

Furthermore, as proforma forms are taking more of an active role, it should be available there too.