Insert table in Description (system field) using JIRA ScriptRunner Behaviour

[Kamal Iqlaas Ismail]

Good day everyone, hope this post finds you safe and sound.

As per subject, the objective is to pre-load the table inside the Description (JIRA System Field)

Not sure if this is achievable using GUI (if yes, great), hence the question on ScriptRunner Behaviour.

We followed this, but could not make it work. We also saw, the table var is defined two times, we followed it blindly, but the Script Editor is showing error.

When we defined it once, no error is showing, but the table is not loading on the Visual tab as desired, but when we switched it to Text tab, the text for the table is the same as when we insert the tab manually.

Here is the desired table that we want to pre-load when a user is creating an issue

Here is the Text tab.

We got confused when this post stated need to use Markdown, we tried that as well, but did not achieve it either.

This is the code in our behaviour.

import groovy.transform.BaseScript
import com.onresolve.jira.groovy.user.FieldBehaviours

@BaseScript FieldBehaviours fieldBehaviours

def desc = getFieldById("description")

def table = """Please enter your details in the below table - 
||Heading 1|||Heading 2|||Heading 3|||Heading 4|||Heading 5|||Heading 6||
| | | | | | |
"""

desc.setFormValue(table)

Any pointers will be helpful!

Version for JIRA Project Management Software: 8.13.8

[Kamal Iqlaas Ismail · Accepted solution]

By using HTML, we got what we need.

Hopefully this helps others who faced similar issue!

[Caroline Hall]

@Kamal Iqlaas Ismail can you share what your HTML looked like?

[Kamal Iqlaas Ismail]

Hey @Caroline Hall , appreciate your response. Actually, we use MD again, as when we were developing, it was in staging environment, But when we deployed to production, everything work wonders!

Here is our code (screenshot)

Do note that there indentation for row is not needed.

[kiranmai_genkolla]

How can i get this format in the custom field as well

[Kamal Iqlaas Ismail]

hey @kiranmai_genkolla , the custom field type must be a text field i think. hope this helps!

[Suvarna Gaikwad]

@Kamal Iqlaas Ismail script looks fine except for table variable definition where there are additional | characters in between header.

Please try below.

def table = " " " Please enter your details in the below table - 

|| Heading 1|| Heading 2 || Heading 3 || Heading 4 || Heading 5 || Heading 6 ||

| | | | | | |

" " "

[Kamal Iqlaas Ismail]

Apparently, we need to use HTML.

Appreciate your response though!

[Anjana Krishnan]

Could you please help with that code snippet?

[Kamal Iqlaas Ismail]

Hi @Anjana Krishnan , please refer my answer to Caroline above. Thanks!