How to remove mandatory concatenation character from Asset import?

[Dhananjay Kale]

While importing objects in Assets, we have requirement that we need to concatenate two attributes in one.

"Customer"--> ABC
"Short Code"--> PQR
So "Customer Short Code" will be ABCPQR

But we have to provide mandatory concatenator character (e.g. hyphen - ) while import. When we try to import, it attaches hyphen (e.g. ABC-PQR) and we don't need that concatenator character. We just need to import without any concatenator (e.g. ABCPQR).

How to do it as we just need plain concatenation of two attributes?

-Dhananjay

[Dhananjay Kale · Accepted solution]

OK. So this can be done with the help of groovy script mentioned on this page.

Note - You also need to add this script in Allowlist Configuration in Assets

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management-articles/Groovy-script-to-remove-default-concatenator-after-importing/ba-p/1782832

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;

def objectFacade = ComponentAccessor.getOSGiComponentInstanceOfType(ComponentAccessor.getPluginAccessor().getClassLoader().findClass("com.riadalabs.jira.plugins.insight.channel.external.api.facade.ObjectFacade"));
def objectTypeAttributeFacade = ComponentAccessor.getOSGiComponentInstanceOfType(ComponentAccessor.getPluginAccessor().getClassLoader().findClass("com.riadalabs.jira.plugins.insight.channel.external.api.facade.ObjectTypeAttributeFacade"));
def objectAttributeBeanFactory = ComponentAccessor.getOSGiComponentInstanceOfType(ComponentAccessor.getPluginAccessor().getClassLoader().findClass("com.riadalabs.jira.plugins.insight.services.model.factory.ObjectAttributeBeanFactory"));

def objectTypeAttributeBean = objectTypeAttributeFacade.loadObjectTypeAttributeBean(161).createMutable() //The id of the attribute, found in the object type Attributes screen
def objectAttributeBean = objectFacade.loadObjectAttributeBean(object.getId(), objectTypeAttributeBean.getId());

def attrValue = objectAttributeBean.getObjectAttributeValueBeans()[0].getValue()
def containsSpace = attrValue.contains("-")

/* check if the attribute contains space inserted as a concatenator value, replace it with empty char */
if (containsSpace == true) {
    attrValue = attrValue.replaceAll("-","")
    }
/* debug value */
// log.warn("New value: " + attrValue)

 /* Create the new attribute bean based on the value */
        def newObjectAttributeBean = objectAttributeBeanFactory.createObjectAttributeBeanForObject(object, objectTypeAttributeBean, attrValue);
        /* Load the attribute bean */
        if (objectAttributeBean != null) {
           /* If attribute exist reuse the old id for the new attribute */
           newObjectAttributeBean.setId(objectAttributeBean.getId());
        }
/* Store the object attribute into Insight. */
try {
    objectTypeAttributeBean = objectFacade.storeObjectAttributeBean(newObjectAttributeBean);
} catch (Exception vie) {
    log.warn("Could not update object attribute due to validation exception:" + vie.getMessage());
}