The roadmap child level issues on my Sotware Project take the start and end date of the sprint.

[Samuel Rodriguez]

I would like to organize the child-level issues with their own dates. 

As you see below, the first schedule is the epic (this one I can move to a different date than the sprint)

The second one is scheduled to start on the 24 and end on the 31, but the roadmap takes the date of the sprint. 

How can I have the dates of the child-level issues free from the dates of the sprint (within the sprint they belong of course)?

[Kevin Lynch · Accepted solution]

okay, found the answer in the response to https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/70050/why-do-i-get-a-null-pointer-exception-when-try-to-execute-a-post-function

The field that you want to take with you from the original issue is not also available to the cloned issue/project, the value will be null. You must make the fields available to both projects and issues of the original and clone issue. You DO NOT have to place the field on any screens.

Therefore, the following worked just fine, and the values where passed to the cloned ticket and placed (overwrote) the Descriptions field.

issue.summary = issue.summary + ' (separation ticket from HR)'
issue.description = 'Reports To=' + cfValues['Reports To'] + '\nStart Date=' + cfValues['Start Date']
issue.assigneeId = 'sysadmin'

[JamieA]

What context is this... some kind of post-function?

What happens if the user has entered a description, do you want to just overwrite it?

[Kevin Lynch]

Yes, it is a post-function and yes, I want the description over written with the Reports To and Start Date information.

Thanks

[Kevin Lynch]

I also tried the below, but am getting:

javax.script.ScriptException: javax.script.ScriptException: java.lang.NullPointerException

import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager
 
def componentManager = ComponentManager.instance
def customFieldManager = componentManager.getCustomFieldManager()
 
def rt = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName('Reports To')
def sd = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName('Start Date')

issue.description = 'Report To=' + issue.getCustomFieldValue(rt) +'\nStart Date=' + issue.getCustomFieldValue(sd)

[JamieA]

Add some logging so you can see what exactly is null... could be one of the custom fields for instance/

[Kevin Lynch]

Sorry, what package name should I log for?

[Kevin Lynch]

Which package should I add to logging? thanks

[JamieA]

You can just add some log.warn() statements. You will add the logging statements to your code, rather than turn logging on from some other package.

[Kevin Lynch]

Log Continued...

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.DateCFType.getDefaultValue(DateCFType.java:128)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.DateCFType.getDefaultValue(DateCFType.java:51)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomFieldImpl.getDefaultValue(CustomFieldImpl.java:1124)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueImpl.getCustomFieldValue(IssueImpl.java:942)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue$getCustomFieldValue.call(Unknown Source)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:42)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:108)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:116)
at Script25.run(Script25.groovy:10)
at org.codehaus.groovy.jsr223.GroovyScriptEngineImpl.eval(GroovyScriptEngineImpl.java:315)
... 207 more

[Kevin Lynch]

Okay, I've moved a little farther. But still can't figure out how to pull the original issue value. I ran the below in Script Runner and it pulls the values correctly from the Issue.

import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField

CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentManager.getInstance().getCustomFieldManager()
issueOld = ComponentManager.getInstance().getIssueManager().getIssueObject("HR-823")
def cf = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(10434)

def sd = issueOld.getCustomFieldValue(cf)

System.out.println(sd)

I modified my post function so I could hopefully see the output of the value in the logs, but it still has an problem.

import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager
  
def componentManager = ComponentManager.instance
def customFieldManager = componentManager.getCustomFieldManager()
  
def cf1 = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(10436)
def cf2 = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(10434)

rt = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cf1)
sd = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cf2)

issue.summary = issue.summary + ' (separation ticket from HR)'
System.out.println('Reports To=' + rt)
System.out.println('Start Date=' + sd)
issue.assigneeId = 'sysadmin'

My next comment will contain the log data

[Kevin Lynch]

Part 1 of log

2013-03-26 11:40:13,699 http-apr-8080-exec-20 ERROR klynch 700x6222x1 1oxtgcn 10.1.74.16 /secure/CommentAssignIssue.jspa [onresolve.jira.groovy.GroovyFunctionPlugin] Error executing post-function
javax.script.ScriptException: javax.script.ScriptException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.codehaus.groovy.jsr223.GroovyScriptEngineImpl.eval(GroovyScriptEngineImpl.java:117)
at javax.script.AbstractScriptEngine.eval(AbstractScriptEngine.java:233)
at javax.script.ScriptEngine$eval.call(Unknown Source)
at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.canned.utils.ConditionUtils.doAdditional(ConditionUtils.groovy:102)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor2147.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:90)
at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:927)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1001)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:585)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(AprEndpoint.java:1770)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: javax.script.ScriptException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.codehaus.groovy.jsr223.GroovyScriptEngineImpl.eval(GroovyScriptEngineImpl.java:318)
at org.codehaus.groovy.jsr223.GroovyScriptEngineImpl.eval(GroovyScriptEngineImpl.java:111)
... 206 more

[JamieA]

Your println statements have gone to a different log... can you change the println to log.warn, and look for that output in the log.

[Kevin Lynch]

I put the following, but catalina.out shows the same thing as before.

import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager
  
def componentManager = ComponentManager.instance
def customFieldManager = componentManager.getCustomFieldManager()
  
def cf1 = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(10436)
def cf2 = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(10434)

rt = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cf1)
sd = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cf2)

issue.summary = issue.summary + ' (separation ticket from HR)'
log.warn('Reports To=' + rt)
log.warn('Start Date=' + sd)
issue.assigneeId = 'sysadmin'

[Kevin Lynch]

changed to:

import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager
   
def componentManager = ComponentManager.instance
def customFieldManager = componentManager.getCustomFieldManager()
   
def cf1 = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(10436)
def cf2 = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(10434)
 
rt = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cf1)
sd = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cf2)
 
issue.summary = issue.summary + ' (separation ticket from HR)'
log.warn(rt)
log.warn(sd)
issue.assigneeId = 'sysadmin'

[Kevin Lynch]

The log is 227 lines and 21410 characters, so I can't post it. But it's the same output as what I posted in the two posts above.