JIRA Post Function to clear default value of a custom field

Paul Stockinger June 2, 2017

I have a custom user field for one of our specialists that defaults to their username because we only have one person in that role. Hence, the specialist.

We have added a new workflow where this specialist may or may not be needed so I added another custom field asking if we need the specialist (Yes/None).

If the answer is None, I would like to clear the default value of Specialist so the field does not appear on the issue. As it is not optional on established issues already using the Specialist field, I need to keep the default value in place.

Could I try a custom field configuration for this new issue type without a default value and essentially do the converse of this script and add the name instead or can this script be punched up to work?

 

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.event.type.EventDispatchOption;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.converters.StringConverter;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.customfieldvalue.CustomFieldValueImpl;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.CustomFieldType;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.UpdateIssueRequest;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder;
import com.atlassian.jira.security.JiraAuthenticationContext;

JiraAuthenticationContext authenticationContext = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext();
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
def groupManager = ComponentAccessor.getGroupManager()

def cField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Does this require a Specialist?")
def cfCustomerJobValue = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cField)
def str = cfCustomerJobValue.toString().indexOf('None');

if (str == 0 || str == -1)
{
 IssueManager issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager();
 CustomFieldManager cfm=ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager();
 CustomField cf2 = cfm.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Specialist");
 def noSpec = "";
// def noSpec = null;
 issue.setCustomFieldValue(cf2, noSpec)
 cf2.updateValue(null, issue, new ModifiedValue(issue.getCustomFieldValue(cf2), noCopy),new DefaultIssueChangeHolder());
 issueManager.updateIssue(authenticationContext.getLoggedInUser(),issue,EventDispatchOption.DO_NOT_DISPATCH,true);
}

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Paul Stockinger June 2, 2017

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.event.type.EventDispatchOption;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.converters.StringConverter;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.customfieldvalue.CustomFieldValueImpl;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.CustomFieldType;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.UpdateIssueRequest;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder;
import com.atlassian.jira.security.JiraAuthenticationContext;

JiraAuthenticationContext authenticationContext = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext();
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
def groupManager = ComponentAccessor.getGroupManager()

def cField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Does this require a Specialist?")
def cfCustomerJobValue = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cField)
def str = cfCustomerJobValue.toString().indexOf("None");

if (str == 0)
{
 IssueManager issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager();
 CustomFieldManager cfm=ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager();
 CustomField cf2 = cfm.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Specialist");
 //def noSpec = "";
 def noSpec = null;
 issue.setCustomFieldValue(cf2, noSpec)
 cf2.updateValue(null, issue, new ModifiedValue(issue.getCustomFieldValue(cf2), noSpec),new DefaultIssueChangeHolder());
 issueManager.updateIssue(authenticationContext.getLoggedInUser(),issue,EventDispatchOption.DO_NOT_DISPATCH,true);
}

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Paul Stockinger June 2, 2017

Error dump is

2017-06-02 14:39:59,387 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: *************************************************************************************
2017-06-02 14:39:59,387 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: Script function failed on issue: MKTEST-61, actionId: 1, file: <inline script>
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.UserCFType.updateValue(UserCFType.java:83)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.ImmutableCustomField.updateValue(ImmutableCustomField.java:425)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.ImmutableCustomField.updateValue(ImmutableCustomField.java:395)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.OrderableField$updateValue.call(Unknown Source)
 at Script276.run(Script276.groovy:32)
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Paul Stockinger June 2, 2017

Can't alter default value in Field Configuration scheme.

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