Howto copy text from description to custom field

[Aivo Lelle]

Hi,

Howto copy certan text from description to custom field during issue creation. Is there and post function available doing this. I need to fetch e-mail address from issue description and set this to custom field.

Thanks!

BR,

Aivo

[Valentijn Scholten · Accepted solution]

You can always use the (groovy) script runner: https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/GRV/Script+Runner

There's an example of this here: https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/GRV/Post+Functions#PostFunctions-Copyonefieldtoanotherusingregexp

[JamieA]

I just edited this answer to include the link, in case of any confusion.

[Valentijn Scholten]

Haha, nice. I was just re-reading this and couldn't remeber putting in the example. thanks.

[Kate]

Hi! Does it really work?

Has anyone tried to realize it?

[Lior Israeli]

Thanks Ramiro, I looked at the links but I'm not any wiser :(

can you please tell me if what I want can be done in Javascript and if yes what is the code?

btw, as I'm using Ondemand I cannot use/install plugins

[Ramiro Pointis]

Sorry, but I only know the code you should use in the script runner plugin.

You should create another question, because it is another topic.

[Ramiro Pointis]

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/43797/adding-a-value-from-a-customfield-to-the-description

Look to this topic, there is an example.

And you can look to this too, it's becoming my bible right now:

https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/GRV/Built-In+Scripts?focusedCommentId=68452750&#comment-68452750

[Lior Israeli]

I am trying to copy the content of the Comments field into my own customfield - Comments1

Can you plesae tell me what is the javascript code for doing this?

[Dieter]

Please try out one of the post functions of this plugin https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/29496

[Aivo Lelle]

I have locked at it, but I didn't find suitable functionality there. Could you please be more specific which function are you erfering to, that could I use to find and copy part of description to my custom field.

[Dieter]

The relevant post function is "Copy parsed text to a selected custom field"

This lets you compose the new content from existing system and custom fields. There is a help on the screen which placeholder you have to use for which field.

[Aivo Lelle]

With this function you can compose different fields into one, but I need to do vice versa.

Let's say somewhere in description there is a line:

"This issue was sent by somebody@somewhere.com at 24.11.2011"

I need to get only email address to my custom field.

[Dieter]

sorry, you are right, parsing the text is not possible using this plugin. Should have read not just the subject of your question ;-)

So i think you need to go the Groovy way as ssuggested in the other answers

[Aivo Lelle]

That's probably the way to do it. Thanks anyway!

[Valentijn Scholten]

I believe this could help out: https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/JSUTIL/JIRA+Suite+Utilities+Workflow+Post-Functions

[Aivo Lelle]

Not exactly. I need to find/match a substring in description and copy that to custom filed, not whole description.