Custom Fields not Passing from Issue to Sub Task

[Steve Turner]

Greetings -

I am having an issue creating a script in Behaviours that allows me to pass the pulldown list selected item to my new task I create under the same issue. See illustration below.  Custom Field name is Accounting Category (its default is TBD) - I want to pass the Operating Expense choice.

  

Here is the screen shot of the behaviour set up.

Here is the full script

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.LazyLoadedOption

def accountingCategory = getFieldById(getFieldChanged())
def accountingCategoryValue = accountingCategory.value

if (!accountingCategoryValue){
return
}

def accountingCategoryIssueKey = accountingCategoryValue.toString().tokenize(":").last()
def accountingCategoryIssue = ComponentAccessor.issueManager.getIssueByCurrentKey(accountingCategoryIssueKey)
def selectListCustomField = ComponentAccessor.customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjects(accountingCategoryIssue).findByName("Accounting Category")
// could not find custom field with name "Accounting Category" on the accounting issue - do nothing
if (!selectListCustomField) {
return
}

def selectListValue = (accountingCategoryIssue.getCustomFieldValue(selectListCustomField) as LazyLoadedOption)?.value
def optionId = ComponentAccessor.optionsManager.getOptions(selectListCustomField.getRelevantConfig(accountingCategoryIssue)).find { it.value == selectListValue}?.optionId
getFieldByName("Accounting Category").setFormValue(optionId)

any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Petter Gonçalves]

Hello Steve,

Were you able to solve your issue following Adaptavist recommendations? 

You can use the post function in this article as a template for your need:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueFieldConstants
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.FieldManager

// the name of the field whose value we want to copy from parent to subtask
final String fieldNameToCopy = "Component/s"

FieldManager fieldManager = ComponentAccessor.fieldManager

if (!issue.isSubTask()) {
return
}

def fieldToCopy = fieldManager.allAvailableNavigableFields.find { it.name == fieldNameToCopy }
if (!fieldToCopy) {
log.info "Could not find field with name $fieldNameToCopy"
return
}

def parentIssue = issue.parentObject
def fieldToCopyId = fieldToCopy.id

switch (fieldToCopyId) {
case fieldManager.&isCustomFieldId:
def customField = ComponentAccessor.customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(fieldToCopyId)
def linkedIssueCustomFieldValue = parentIssue.getCustomFieldValue(customField)
issue.setCustomFieldValue(customField, linkedIssueCustomFieldValue)
break

case IssueFieldConstants.COMPONENTS:
issue.setComponent(parentIssue.components)
break

case IssueFieldConstants.FIX_FOR_VERSIONS:
issue.setFixVersions(parentIssue.fixVersions)
break

case IssueFieldConstants.AFFECTED_VERSIONS:
issue.setAffectedVersions(parentIssue.affectedVersions)
break

default:
issue[fieldToCopyId] = parentIssue[fieldToCopyId]
}

Let me know if this information helps.

[Krishnanand Nayak]

how are you triggering the new task creation?

[Steve Turner]

Either the pulldown create new sub-task or click the plus sign in the issue.

[Krishnanand Nayak]

instead of behavior you should try using a Issue Create/Update Listener to copy the value from the Parent to the Sub-Task.

Behaviors are loaded on the current form, so might have to write additional code to get the issue context where the creation is triggered.

[Steve Turner]

I am new in customization Jira with the adaptavist plugins.  So I need to do a listener instead of behaviours?  

[Krishnanand Nayak]

here is how it will look

also you get get some solution here : https://library.adaptavist.com/entity/create-a-sub-task-when-parent-issue-has-a-specific-label

[Steve Turner]

After talking with Adaptavist - they told me to use a behaviour instead of a listener - so Not sure how to proceed here.

[Krishnanand Nayak]

They are the experts. I would follow their inputs and they should have script samples too.