ScriptRunner Script or Behaviour to Limit Linked Issues to Certain Issue Types

[Shawna Morris]

Good Afternoon!

Let me outline what it is I'm trying to get to. 

Background Information: We have Epics, Features, and Enablers in Project B. Before any of these issueTypes can be progressed beyond a "New" status, they have to be a "Child of" issueLink to something (they're supposed to be a "Child of" an Initiative issueType, but people will put anything there to move their issue).

Ask: I want it to be that an Epic/Feature/Enabler cannot progress beyond New UNTIL it's a "Child of" an Initiative issueType (in Project A). 

I am not the best coder, just being honest. But I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do this via a ScriptRunner validation/script or Behaviour. 

Can someone help! Please and thank you! 

[Derek Fields (RightStar)]

Here is a start. You would install this as a Script Condition using ScriptRunner.

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;

final String LINK_TYPE = "DUPLICATE";
final String ISSUE_TYPE = "Initiative";

def linkManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueLinkManager();
def links = ComponentAccessor.getIssueLinkManager()
.getLinkCollectionOverrideSecurity(issue)
.getOutwardIssues(LINK_TYPE)
.find{
it.getIssueType().getName() == ISSUE_TYPE
};

You need to update the Link Type and the Issue Type to match what you want. This particular code does not check that the outward linked issue is in a specific project. You can add that in the find closure if you want.

I hope that this helps.

[Shawna Morris]

I'm going to try this. For now, I've created two additional customFields (issuePicker with a JQL). But, this has the potential to be much cleaner.