how to get values of a summary field

[Moin Pathan]

Team ,

I am trying to write a script for a field behavior in JIRA. As part of which I am trying to fetch the Summary ( system field ) value from a JIRA ticket. But as result the value in log shows a Null value for Summary.

I tried using below but know luck.

-- FormField ExtractType = getFieldById("summary")

-- FormField ExtractType = getFieldByName("summary")

Can someone help me to show how to get values of a summary field.

Thanks.

[Ali Bugra Topcuoglu]

You can get summary like this;

underlyingIssue?.summary

[Moin Pathan]

Jamie ,

Can you please guide us on this issue ?

[JamieA]

> On which field have you attached this script? Please answer my question.

[Bob]

Hi Moin, or Jamie - did anything ever come of this question? 

I believe I am having the same problem, my code is as so: 

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

def summary = getFieldById("summary")

summary.setHelpText ("Summary is: "+getFieldByName("Summary").getFormValue())

 I have tried a range of syntax:

getFieldByName("Summary").getFormValue()

getFieldById("summary").getFormValue()

getFieldByName("Summary").getValue()

getFieldById("summary").getValue()

Unfortunately in all cases my help text simply states the summary is Null, even when editing a ticket which has a summary set. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Naveen]

@Bob

Did you had any success in making above code work?

[Moin Pathan]

No we don't have any Summary custom field. We are using Summary system field only.

We even tried this with other system fields but getting the same error - Null value

[JamieA]

It's:

getFieldById("summary"

or

getFieldByName("Summary")

Once you have the field, you call getFormValue() on it to get the actual summary. On which field have you attached this script?

[Moin Pathan]

Thanks Jamie ,

We are using a Text field for this script.

[JamieA]

Summary is the name of the system summary field. Do you have a a custom field called Summary?