Add a dynamic number value to a date-field with JMWE

[Martin Heini]

Hi, 

To add the value of a number customfield to a date field in a Set Issue Fileds Post Function  I'm trying on this way as Groovy script: 

new Date() + issue.get("customfield_21011") + 7

It didn't works. Any ideas?
Thanks, 
Martin

[David Fischer · Accepted solution]

Hi @Martin Heini 

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to achieve. Is customfield_21011 your number field? And are you trying to set a Date field to "now" + a number of days equal to the value of customfield_21011 + 7 days?

When you say it doesn't work, what does it do exactly? Are you getting any errors? Are you getting a wrong date?

[Martin Heini]

Hi David
Yes, this is exactely what I want to do.

Target is a customfield of type date,
customfield_21011 is of type number,
7 is a constant

[David Fischer]

Then the problem is that the value of your Number field is a Double (floating point), not an Integer, and Groovy doesn't know how to add floating point numbers to a Date.

Also, you need to add code to manage the case where customfield_21011 is empty.

This code will consider an empty customfield_21011 field as 0:

new Date() + (int)(issue.get("customfield_21011") ?: 0) + 7

[Martin Heini]

Hi David

Yes, that's the solution I was looking for. Thank so much.

Martin

[Dick]

try smart values? 
{{issue.customfield_21011}}

[Dick]

https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/JMWEC/pages/466322168/Tags+and+Expressions 

[Martin Heini]

Hi Dick

I tried {{...}} without succsess. 
As I understand setContextVar, it is a variable set in a certain context. Here I was looking for a variable that the user can set freely via a screen.
Thanks anyway.

Martin