Is it possible to build a drop down in Jira with values from another field?

[April Smith]

Hello,

I am trying to use ScriptRunner plug in to dynamically build a select list based on comma delimited values entered by the user in another field

So field 1 is multi-line text field in JIRA which looks like this "red,green,blue,yellow"

and i'd like to write a script in scriptrunner that takes the values entered into that field and created a drop-down select with them. Is this possible? If so, is it still possible if the fields are in seperate projects?

[Kate Kabir]

Hi @Eric Smith 

Thank you for the question.

I can confirm that ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud does not currently have Behaviours like feature and this is something which we are considering at the moment as shown on the ticket In our public backlog located here.

Unfortunately, at this time there is no alternative that can be used to achieve your requirement of dynamically clearing field options or populating options on a screen as Atlassian does not provide the API's that would be required to be able to achieve these features and this means that these requirements are currently not possible inside of ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud.

I hope this information helps.

Kind Regards

Kate

[PD Sheehan]

Yes, that's possible using the Select List Conversion in scriptrunner behaviours.

On the initializer and your multiline text field, place a script that looks like this:

def csvFieldName = 'csv Field'
def targetSelectFieldName = 'field to convert to select'

def csvField = getFieldByName(csvFieldName)
def targetSelectField = getFieldByName(targetSelectFieldName)
def csvValue = csvField.value as String
targetSelectField.convertToShortText()
if(csvValue){
   def optionMap = [:]
   optionMap.put("","") // this is to have a blank option that allows clearing the field
   csvValue.split(',').each{optionMap.put(it.trim(),it.trim())}
   targetSelectField.convertToMultiSelect().setFieldOptions(optionMap)
} else {
   targetSelectField.convertToShortText().setReadOnly(true).setDescription("Populate values in $csvFieldName before making a selection")
}

[PD Sheehan]

Oops, I didn't read carefully ... this assumes both fields are on the same issue.

If they are in different issue/project, you need to have a way to find the issue where the csv will be.

But the approach will be similar except for how you get the csvValue.

[PD Sheehan]

I was clearly not paying very good attention ... I also didn't notice the "cloud" tag.

My response only applies to server/DC, unfortunately.