Jira Advanced Roadmaps: is there no way to auto-populate Target start and end dates?

[Diana]

I am trying to auto-populate Advanced Roadmaps fields "Target start" and Target end" dates.

If a Feature has a Fix Version or changed, and the Fix Version has Release start and end dates, then auto-fill those same dates to Target start and Target end dates. If Release dates has changed, Target start/end dates will auto-update as well.

I've tried Scriptrunner listener, but no luck.

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

import com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent

import com.atlassian.jira.event.type.EventDispatchOption

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder

import java.time.LocalDate

import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter

def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

def versionManager = ComponentAccessor.getVersionManager()

def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()

def issue = event.issue

def project = issue.getProjectObject()

def projectKey = "test"

// Check if the project key matches "test"

if (project.key == projectKey) {

    // Get the Fix Version field value from the issue

    def fixVersions = issue.getFixVersions()

    def projectID = issue.getProjectId()

    // Check if its a feature and it has a fix version

        if (issue.issueType == 'Feature' && fixVersions != null) {

            // Get all releases in the "test" project

            def testReleases = versionManager.getVersionsUnreleased(project.getId(), false)

            // Loop through the Fix Versions of the issue

            for (def fixVersion in fixVersions) {

                if(testReleases.find { it.id == fixVersion.id}){

                def releaseStartDate = fixVersion.startDate

                def releaseEndDate = fixVersion.releaseDate

                log.warn("start date: " + releaseStartDate)

                log.warn("end date: " + releaseEndDate)

                // Format the dates as strings with the format "dd-MMM-yyyy"

                def dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy") as String

                def formattedStartDate = releaseStartDate.format(dateFormat) 

                def formattedEndDate = releaseEndDate.format(dateFormat)

                // Set the custom field values

                def targetStart = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectsByName("Target start")

                def targetEnd = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectsByName("Target end")

                // Start a new transaction to make the changes

                def currentUser = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getLoggedInUser()

                MutableIssue featureIssue = issue as MutableIssue

//error comes here, the method will not recognize the formatted date

                targetStart.updateValue(null, featureIssue, new ModifiedValue(featureIssue.getCustomFieldValue(targetStart), formattedStartDate), new DefaultIssueChangeHolder())

                targetEnd.updateValue(null, featureIssue, new ModifiedValue(featureIssue.getCustomFieldValue(targetEnd), formattedEndDate), new DefaultIssueChangeHolder())

//also tried the setCustomFieldValue method, but no luck

                //featureIssue.setCustomFieldValue(targetStart, releaseStartDate)

                //featureIssue.setCustomFieldValue(targetEnd, releaseEndDate)

                issueManager.updateIssue(currentUser, featureIssue, EventDispatchOption.DO_NOT_DISPATCH, false)

                }

            break

        }

    }

}

Is it because the Target start and Target end dates are locked fields from Advanced Roadmaps that they can't be edited via Scriptrunner?

[Hauke Bruno Wollentin]

Not sure about Jira DC, but in Cloud the format is "yyyy-MM-dd" as String, which did the trick for me to update the Target End of Advanced Roadmaps.

Anyways, when using "getCustomFieldObjectsByName()" the return value is a list, so maybe this is just a copy/paste error but you need something like "getCustomFieldObjectsByName().first()" to catch the actual CustomField object.