Copy issue description to custom field

[Alexander Richter]

i want to copy the value of issue description to a customfield. I got following code and need to get description as a variable to use it as value for "def modifiedvalue = "some value".

how do i define this?

Code:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.search.SearchProvider
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder
import com.atlassian.jira.jql.parser.JqlQueryParser
import com.atlassian.jira.web.bean.PagerFilter

def jqlQueryParser = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(JqlQueryParser.class)
def searchProvider = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(SearchProvider.class)
def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()
def user = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getLoggedInUser()

def searchQuery = "project = SSPA" // the JQL query you want to use
def customField = "Some Custom Field" // the name of the custom field to change
def modifiedValue = "Some Value" // the new value

def query = jqlQueryParser.parseQuery(searchQuery)

def results = searchProvider.search(query, user, PagerFilter.getUnlimitedFilter())

results.getIssues().each {documentIssue ->
    def issue = issueManager.getIssueObject(documentIssue.id)
    def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
    def modifiedField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectsByName(customField)[0]
    modifiedField.updateValue(null, issue, new ModifiedValue(issue.getCustomFieldValue(modifiedField), modifiedValue),new DefaultIssueChangeHolder())
}

[Tansu Akdeniz · Accepted solution]

Hi @Alexander Richter,

Please try this one;

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.search.SearchProvider
import com.atlassian.jira.jql.parser.JqlQueryParser
import com.atlassian.jira.web.bean.PagerFilter
import com.atlassian.jira.event.type.EventDispatchOption;

def jqlQueryParser = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(JqlQueryParser.class)
def searchProvider = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(SearchProvider.class)
def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()
def user = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getLoggedInUser()

def searchQuery = "project = SSPA" // the JQL query you want to use
def customField = "customfield_xxxxx" // the id of the custom field to change
def fieldCF = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObject(customField);

def query = jqlQueryParser.parseQuery(searchQuery)
def results = searchProvider.search(query, user, PagerFilter.getUnlimitedFilter())

results.getIssues().each {documentIssue ->
    def jqlIssue = issueManager.getIssueObject(documentIssue.id)
    log.error("Issue: " +jqlIssue.key)
    jqlIssue.setCustomFieldValue(fieldCF,jqlIssue.getDescription())
    issueManager.updateIssue(user, jqlIssue, EventDispatchOption.DO_NOT_DISPATCH, false)
}

Tansu 

[Alexander Richter]

Hi Tansu,

it works, thank you very much :)

Alex

[Tansu Akdeniz]

You are welcome :)

[Fazila Ashraf]

Hi @Alexander Richter

If your question is about how to get an issue's description value in groovy, you can use 

def descValue = issue.getDescription()