How to copy attachments on subtask up to the parent ticket

[Lauren Robinette]

Is it possible to copy attachments that are posted to the subtask ticket up to the parent ticket without erasing any of the attachments on the parent ticket?

[Ivan Tovbin]

Hi Lauren,

I'm afraid you can't do this with basic jira functionality which is available out of the box. You'll need 3rd party addons like Scriptrunner, Power Scripts or Automation for Jira to achieve this.

[Lauren Robinette]

hi @Ivan Tovbin! I have both Scriptrunner and Automation for Jira. Could you walk me through how to use either one of them to build a subtask off of a subtask if one field on the first subtask has a certain selection? I'm using Jira Server.

[Ivan Tovbin]

Sure thing. When exactly do you want this to trigger?

[Lauren Robinette]

@Ivan Tovbin When the ticket is moved to Done

[Ivan Tovbin]

I see. It seems a scripted post function is the solution here. Here's the code. Use it for a scripted post function on a transition which is used to move a ticket to 'Done' status:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.AttachmentManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.attachment.Attachment
import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser

ApplicationUser currentUser = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getLoggedInUser()
Issue parentIssue = issue.getParentObject()
AttachmentManager attachmentManager = ComponentAccessor.getAttachmentManager()
Collection<Attachment> attachments = issue.getAttachments()

attachments.each{
    attachmentManager.copyAttachment(it, currentUser, parentIssue.getKey())
}