How to deal with optional confiForms fields when passing data to JIRA create issue api

[jokolbe]

I have an optional Form Field in my form

name: due
field type: Date
format: yyyy-MM-dd

Using ConfiForms IFTTT Integration Rules
event: onCreated
action: Create JIRA Issue

I'm passing the following:

{ 
  "fields": {
    ...
    "duedate": "[entry.due]",
    ...
  }
}

Since it's an optional field, when I do not fill out value I'm getting the following error:

com.atlassian.sal.api.net.ResponseException: Error communicating with Jira, Bad Request {"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"duedate":"Error parsing date string: "}}

How do I deal with passing optional fields into Creating JIRA issue call?

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ · Accepted solution]

We have a virtual function to help you specifically with that

"duedate": "[entry.due.jiraDate]"

https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Virtual+functions 

Optional fields can be handled with Velocity templating, as shown here: https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Configuring+ConfiForms+IFTTT+actions+and+rules#ConfiguringConfiFormsIFTTTactionsandrules-CreateJiraIssue

(unless it is disabled for ConfiForms app by your system admin)

[jokolbe]

@Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ how do I incorporate the IFTTT rules, this doesn't work

{
"fields": {
  "summary": "[entry.title]",
  #if(!${entry.due.isEmpty()})
  "duedate": "[entry.due]",
  #end
  "customfield_13162": { "value": "[entry.brand.label]" },
}
}

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

{
"fields": {
  "summary": "[entry.title]",
  #if(${due})
  "duedate": "[entry.due.jiraDate]",
  #end
  "customfield_13162": { "value": "[entry.brand.label]" },
}
}

[jokolbe]

when I do this, the JIRA issue is not created unless I fill out the due Date in the form

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Do you see an error from Jira? What kind of error?

[jokolbe]

There is no error that I see on form submission at all. I just dont see the issue created nor I get any issue number back

[jokolbe]

My apologies, I had an extra condition on the IFTTT !due:[empty] that I didn't remove

Working perfectly fine!

[Noah Leu -MESKRU GmbH-]

Hey @Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ ,

I tried this with a date field the same way. It is suppose to be optional and should only provide a date, if the field is filled/ a date is selected. Otherwise there should not be a date parsed to Jira.

However it throws an error regarding the if clause.

Do you have an idea what the issue is? Thanks in advance.

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Most probably, in your Confluence instance ConfiForms has an option to evaluate the contents as Velocity template disabled

https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Release+Notes?preview=/31096895/49415735/confi-conf-velocity.png 

Could you check with you admins? 

Alex

[Noah Leu -MESKRU GmbH-]

Hey @Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ ,

thank you very much! It was indeed disabled. Now its working perfectly!