Reading a Forms(ProForma) field value without the JSON tab

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This workaround is meant to help customers who were used to working with the JSON tab provided by ThinkTilt(ProForma) and which is now being modified to use in Jira Forms. And also, to help new Forms customers to be able to get the forms fields ID.

As this feature is being changed and probably will bring support to Automation for Jira to access form contents with SmartValues. You can use the Entity Property Tool for Jira to be able to inspect the form data. This should allow you to continue to build your automation, for example.
Note: This tool is not officially supported, so please be careful how you work with these properties as you can easily break a form by changing the JSON.

Important related documentation:

Use forms in Jira Service Management
ProForma & A4J
How AFJ works
Smart values

Workaround steps:

With the Entity Property Tool for Jira installed it only will be needed to add the form, that you desire to get the IDs, in a ticket and go into the Entity properties tab, as I show on the screenshot below:

The structure to access data, where AAA is the question ID number (not the Question Key defined in the form builder) is:

• Text/Email/URL/Number Fields: {{issue.properties."proforma.forms.i1".state.answers.AAA.text}}

• Date Fields: {{issue.properties."proforma.forms.i1".state.answers.AAA.date}}

• Time Fields: {{issue.properties."proforma.forms.i1".state.answers.AAA.time}}

• Name of a user: {{issue.properties."proforma.forms.i1".state.answers.AAA.users.get(0).name}}

• Choice Fields: {{issue.properties."proforma.forms.i1".state.answers.AAA.choices.get(0)}}

  • Note this will only return the ID associated with the choice rather than the text.

  • The text of the selected choice value is stored is difficult for Automation for Jira to retrieve. It is stored as:
    issue.properties."proforma.forms.i1".questions.choices

So, on the Entity property box, you will see: "proforma.forms.i1", "proforma.forms.i2"(it will probably be "1", which is a reference to the first form in the list, if it is the second form, it will be "2" then "3" and so on...):

Using a code editor like Sublime you can paste the form properties and look for the fields that you desire and get the IDs, as I show on the screen recording below:

[Amanda Ward]

Does this actually work now? All the reviews in the marketplace say this app doesn't work. 

[Bruno Altenhofen]

Hey @ama

I hope your week is going well!

The ProForma app isn’t more available on the Atlassian Marketplace. As part of the integration between ProForma and Atlassian, it is now natively available in Jira Service Management projects as the new Forms.

Also for more information on the new availabilities of Forms for JSM, JWM, and JSW products, we will be updating our users via email and also our roadmap here: Atlassian cloud roadmap

Thanks! :D

[Charles Trilha]

Nice Article!

ProForma Legend, Bruno!