Pre-populate custom field with "current user" value

[Christian Czaia [Decadis AG]]

Hi everyone,

I've been looking everywhere to find a solution for my problem. I have a custom field (user picker) called "responsible" and I need it to be pre-populated with the "reporter" (or current user) value on issue creation. I can't just copy the value as part of a post-function since users should have the possibility to change the value right away (if they are not the person being responsible)

There used to be a plugin addressing the problem which seems to outdated.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-7947?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Aworklog-tabpanel

I've been trying to achieve this with the behaviours plugin but with no success.

FormField formAutor = getFieldByID("reporter")
FormField formAG = getFieldByName("Auftraggeber")


if(formAG.getFormValue() == ""){

 formAG.setFormValue(formAutor.getFormValue())
 
}

Any clues or is this a real piece of work? If yes, I have to check with my customer if this request is a must-have...

Thank you,

Christian

[Mizan Ali Sayed · Accepted solution]

This should be possible using Behaviours plugin .

Try the below script , even add some logging (you will have to click on enable logging on the behaviours plugin )

FormField formAutor = getFieldByID("reporter")
FormField formAG = getFieldByName("Auftraggeber")
 
 
if(!formAG.getFormValue()){
 
 formAG.setFormValue(formAutor.getFormValue())
  
}

[Christian Czaia [Decadis AG]]

Do I have to active another logging behaviour (set a logger to debug?)

[Mizan Ali Sayed]

yes there is a enable logging link on the behaviours page

[Christian Czaia [Decadis AG]]

I know, just wanted to check if I had to set a JIRA logger to "debug" instead of warning in order to see the entries in the log file.

[Mizan Ali Sayed]

Ok , so is the script working ?

[Christian Czaia [Decadis AG]]

Hey, it's not working. Can't view the log right now since the server admin has already gone home:-) I even tried without the if clause with no result. The value doesn't get copied.

[Christian Czaia [Decadis AG]]

Any chance of retrieving the current reporter (or current user) without using the field "reporter" on my issue create screen? My customer doesn't want the creator field being displayed...

[Mizan Ali Sayed]

yes you can use the following line

User currentUser = componentManager.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getUser()

[Christian Czaia [Decadis AG]]

I've achieved it by using:

import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager

FormField formAG = getFieldByName("Auftraggeber")       

currUser = ComponentManager.getInstance().getJiraAuthenticationContext().getUser()
currUserName = currUser.getName()

if(!formAG.getFormValue()){     
 
 formAG.setFormValue(currUserName) 
 }

[Mizan Ali Sayed]

Great :)

Hey can you try the below code .. it wont make much difference

import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager
 
FormField formAG = getFieldByName("Auftraggeber")      
 

 
if(!formAG.getFormValue()){    
formAG.setFormValue(ComponentManager.getInstance().getJiraAuthenticationContext().getUser().getName())
 }

[Alex Suslin]

Have a look at this quesrtion: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/21273/how-can-i-populate-a-multi-select-custom-field-with-values-from-an-external-source

[Christian Czaia [Decadis AG]]

Got a typo:

FormField formAutor = getFieldById("reporter")

FormField formAG = getFieldByName("Auftraggeber")

if(!formAG.getFormValue()){

formAG.setFormValue(formAutor.getFormValue())

}

I had ID :-)

[Melanie Rogers]

The script worked for me also in the Behaviours plugin. In addition, I would like to choose a different user in the custom field (user picker) if it is not the Reporter. Is there a simple "else" statement I could use?

[JIRA_USER]

Hi,

I have almost similar issue. Could someone please help me.

My issue is, I have a custom field and a system field (Reporter). I would have a value in my custom field and I want that value to auto populate to the Reporter field if that user(value) listed in custom field maches to the user list in Reporter field.

How do I do this?

[Lubomir Styskala]

Hello,

can someone advise me where to get Behaviours plugin, please? I have looked up on Atlassian marketplace but with no success. Nothing like Behaviours plugin for Jira.

Thank you in advance,

L.

[Nati Levi]

It's part of the ScriptRunner plugin

[Lubomir Styskala]

Thank you, it helped.