How do i make a field that counts the number of attachments?

[Jannik Mortensen]

Just upgrade to JIRA 7.0.2 and my old custom field is gone, which did the above.

Looked at scriptrunner, but couldn't get it working. Any ideas?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Script runner can do it, and it's quite easy to do as well - I've got a feeling it's a one-line scripted field.

What have you tried there?

[Phill Fox]

See the script on https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/latest/jira/scripted-fields.html#_calculate_a_number_based_on_other_fields for how to calculate the number of attachments. 

[Jannik Mortensen]

Tried the example from scriptrunner, as Phill mentions. but it doesnt work.

I see now that it has been superseeded by hasAttachments. jql function. But it doesnt make any sense to me with my lack of programmingskills. I can see how it can be used to make a query but not to pull the actual count in a custom field.

Do you have any examples?

Thanks for taking your time.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

As Phill may be at lunch, the script on that page needs updating as it was written for JIRA 6 @Thanos Batagiannis [Adaptavist] gave us a new one: import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor def attachmentManager = ComponentAccessor.getAttachmentManager() def numberAttachments = attachmentManager.getAttachments(issue).size() // use the following instead for number of PDFs //def numberAttachments = attachmentManager.getAttachments(issue).findAll {a -> // a.filename.toLowerCase().endsWith(".pdf") //}.size() return numberAttachments ? numberAttachments as Double : null

[Jannik Mortensen]

Its working, Thanks!

[Phill Fox]

Thanks @Nic Brough [Adaptavist] for posting the answer whilst I was at lunch.