How to make a Field Required Based Off Value of Another Field

[Elif Alverson]

Hello, 

Is there a way to make custom field called " ECC Reason" required if the Label is selected as " Emergency" ? 

If this can only be done by a script runner , do you have any samples?

Thank you.

We use JIRA 7.5.0

Elif 

[Mark Markov]

Hello @Elif Alverson

If your quiestion actual.

Yes, as David say, you need behaviour mapped to the labels field.

But labels field is special one. When there is only one label it is String object, but if there two or more its List<String> object, so keep it in mind, we can make script like this:

def labels = getFieldById(getFieldChanged())
def targetField = getFieldByName("ECC Justification")
targetField.setRequired(false)
if ("EmergencyChange".equals(labels.getValue()) || labels.getValue().find {it == "EmergencyChange"} ){
    targetField.setRequired(true)
}

I check it on ScriptRunner v5.4.7, it works! Hope it help you!

[Elif Alverson]

@Mark Markov, 

Thank you for your response. It works on transition step " Submit for Approval". 

We need " ECC Justification" to be required only for transition " Resolved".

I put the conditions however it does  not work.

Any ideas? 

Thank you.

 

[Mark Markov]

Hello @Elif Alverson

You can use method getActionName() to find current transition, see code bellow

if ("Resolved".equals(getActionName())) {
    def labels = getFieldById(getFieldChanged())
    def targetField = getFieldByName("ECC Justification")
    targetField.setRequired(false)
    if ("EmergencyChange".equals(labels.getValue()) || labels.getValue().find { it == "EmergencyChange" }) {
        targetField.setRequired(true)
    }
}

[Elif Alverson]

@Mark Markov, I have tried however it does not work. I can resolve issues with EmergencyChange labels without filling " ECC Justification" custom field. 

Any idea why?

[Mark Markov]

getActionName() contains transition name, in your case it seems transition have name "Resolve Issue", so this name must be in code:

if ("Resolve Issue".equals(getActionName())) {
    def labels = getFieldById(getFieldChanged())
    def targetField = getFieldByName("ECC Justification")
    targetField.setRequired(false)
    if ("EmergencyChange".equals(labels.getValue()) || labels.getValue().find { it == "EmergencyChange" }) {
        targetField.setRequired(true)
    }
}

[Elif Alverson]

Tried it, still no change. " ECC Justification" is not required.

See below.

[Mark Markov]

Remove conditions above. Leave only the script.

[Elif Alverson]

Same result nothing changed.

[Mark Markov]

I check it on my local environment and it work perfectly, are you sure that transition name is correct in script? Try to add log.error() after condition and see logs, to make sure that behaviour runs correctly on screen we need

if ("Resolve Issue".equals(getActionName())) {
    log.error("Behaviour start on screen Resolve issue")
    def labels = getFieldById(getFieldChanged())
    def targetField = getFieldByName("ECC Justification")
    targetField.setRequired(false)
    if ("EmergencyChange".equals(labels.getValue()) || labels.getValue().find { it == "EmergencyChange" }) {
        targetField.setRequired(true)
    }
}

[Elif Alverson]

Here are the workflow steps below. So when you send the ticket to " resolve issue" , the edit screens pops up saying the " ECC Justification" needs to be filled? How does it work?

We use v7.5.0, does it make any difference?

I do not have access to the logs.

[Mark Markov]

Do you have some others behaviours? 

If there are two or more behaviours executing on the screen and one of them fails, all behaviours fails.

[Elif Alverson]

@Mark Markov, 

I also have this behavior for the same issue type and it works just fine.

[David STOCKY]

Scriptrunner behaviours:

def dropDown = getFieldByName("Liste1")
def hiddenField = getFieldByName("Liste2")
log.debug("dropdown value" + dropDown.getValue())

hiddenField.setRequired(false)
if (dropDown.getValue() == "aa") {
     hiddenField.setRequired(true)
}

[Elif Alverson]

@David STOCKY,

Here is what I am trying to do. If Jira user states " Labels= EmergencyChange", then the custom field " ECC Justification" is required. 

I tried the script you have provided but nothing happens. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

Here it is;

[David STOCKY]

You are running a script on ECC Justification.

Or you want to have a special behaviours on the change on the fields "Labels".

So you have to move your script from ECC Justification (Fields) to Labels (Fields) on your script attached.

Do you get the point?

You script should be launch on Labels's event

[Elif Alverson]

Here what I have tried no change :(

[David STOCKY]

Try to log information:

import org.apache.log4j.Logger
import org.apache.log4j.Level

def log = Logger.getLogger("com.behaviours")
log.setLevel(Level.DEBUG)

log.debug("text to display on log")

Make sure you can get our field. Maybe your can try getFieldById instead of getFieldByName

[David STOCKY]

Did you set the correct mapping of this behaviours? Projet / Issue Type?

[Elif Alverson]

@David STOCKY, 

where to put this one to see the output;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger
import org.apache.log4j.Level

def log = Logger.getLogger("com.behaviours")
log.setLevel(Level.DEBUG)

log.debug("text to display on log")

Yes, I did set it to correct Project/Issue Type.

[David STOCKY]

something like that directly on your script and log will appear on jira server log 

------------------------------------------------

import org.apache.log4j.Logger
import org.apache.log4j.Level

def log = Logger.getLogger("com.behaviours")
log.setLevel(Level.DEBUG)

log.debug("start script")

def dropDown = getFieldByName("Labels")
def requiredField = getFieldByName("ECC Justification")
log.debug("dropdown value" + dropDown.getValue())

log.debug("set required false")

requiredField.setRequired(false)
if (dropDown.getValue() == "EmergencyChange") {

    log.debug("set required true")
    requiredField.setRequired(true)
}

log.debug("stop script")

[Elif Alverson]

@David STOCKY,  I will not able to share the logs with you. 

Thanks for your time. I need to find another way to make this work.

[Scott Theus]

Hi Elif,

There are a few examples in the Community, here is one:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Required-field-and-condition/qaq-p/752807

Hope this helps,

-Scott