How to create a custom field which displays the number of issues in an epic?

[Alexander B.]

Hi all,

my request is about the ticket type Epic.

When stories are linked to an epic, they are listed as "Issues in epic".

I would like to display the total number of "Issues in epic" as a number in the epic.

Example: If my list "issues in epic" contains 15 items, I want to show this value as a number in a custom field "Total number of tickets".

I have created a scripted field for this with scriptrunner and would be happy if you could support me with the matching script.

To get all related issues I'm using this script below. When i use a textfield-template, it correctly gives me the linked keys. Now I need a function that sums the number of keys so I can display them with a number-field-template

Thanks,
Alexander

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

import com.atlassian.fugue.Option

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue

//Method to get the greenhopper bean instance

def getBean(String beanId)

{

 def ghPlugin = ComponentAccessor.getPluginAccessor().getEnabledPlugin("com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira")

 def descriptor = ghPlugin.getModuleDescriptor("greenhopper-launcher")

 def applicationContext = descriptor.getModule().greenHopperCacheManager.applicationContext

 def beanInstance = applicationContext.getBean(beanId)

 return beanInstance;

}

//method to return list of issue keys in an Epic

def getEpicIssueKeys(Issue issue) {

 def epic = (Option)Option.option(issue)

 def epicLinkManagerImpl = getBean("epicLinkManagerImpl");

 issuesInEpic = epicLinkManagerImpl.getIssuesInEpic(issue)

 return issuesInEpic

}

if(issue.issueType.name=="Epic") {

 return getEpicIssueKeys(issue)

}

return null

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Alexander B_ and welcome to the community,

If your result is a list or array, why you don't use the .size to get the number of issues in that list?

[Alexander B.]

Hi @Alex Koxaras _Relational_ 

thank you! That helped. Find my modified script below.

Cheers!

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

import com.atlassian.fugue.Option

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue

//Method to get the greenhopper bean instance

def getBean(String beanId)

{

 def ghPlugin = ComponentAccessor.getPluginAccessor().getEnabledPlugin("com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira")

 def descriptor = ghPlugin.getModuleDescriptor("greenhopper-launcher")

 def applicationContext = descriptor.getModule().greenHopperCacheManager.applicationContext

 def beanInstance = applicationContext.getBean(beanId)

 return beanInstance;

}

//method to count the number of issue keys in an Epic

def getEpicIssueKeys(Issue issue) {

 def epic = (Option)Option.option(issue)

 def epicLinkManagerImpl = getBean("epicLinkManagerImpl");

 numberOfIssuesInEpic = epicLinkManagerImpl.getIssuesInEpic(issue).size()

 return numberOfIssuesInEpic

}

if(issue.issueType.name=="Epic") {

 return getEpicIssueKeys(issue)

}

return null

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

Nice! Good to know that!

[Erik Ekengren]

I was looking for this solution as well. Thank you for posting this!