Custom Field set to current date - Script runner

[Chandan Gupta]

I have created a custom field with name 'Begin Date' which is type of Date Picker. In my work flow I want to put the post function that as soon as I make a transition of issue from Created to In-progress, Begin Date should populate with Current Date.

I tried with custom script in Script Runner but failed. Help please?

[Alexey Matveev · Accepted solution]

Hello,

You can find an answer here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Scripted-post-function-to-set-a-date-value-in-custom-field/qaq-p/368278

[Chandan Gupta]

Thanks Alexey.

But I got 

Error occurred while creating issue. This could be due to a plugin being incompatible with this version of JIRA. For more details please consult the logs, and see: http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/3McB java.sql.Timestamp cannot be cast to java.lang.String

It seems that you have tried to perform an illegal workflow operation.. any idea??

[Alexey Matveev]

What is the type of your custom field? 

[Chandan Gupta]

One custom field is Date Picker and another is Text Field

[Alexey Matveev]

According to the error you are trying to save the date into your Text Field

[Chandan Gupta]

Hmm, you are right. When I tried with date picket it worked. Is there any way we can convert it to String and add it to text field as well.

Thanks for all the help here..  

[Chandan Gupta]

Final script I used is 

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

import static java.lang.Math.*

import java.sql.Timestamp

def Begin_Date = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObjectByName("Begin Date")

// get today's date

issue.setCustomFieldValue(Begin_Date, new Timestamp((new Date() + 1).time))

[Alexey Matveev]

You can convert the date to a string like this:

new Timestamp((new Date() + 1).time.toString()

[Mike_Low]

Thanks the script Chandan provided immediately above worked for me. Just removed the +1 to be the current date.

[Francesc_Arbó · Accepted solution]

Hi @Chandan Gupta,

You can edit the date custom field configuration an check the Current Date option.

In addition, you can use the Suite Utilities for Jira app in the postfunction and add the Update Issue Custom Field in order to add the current date in that specific transition.