Copy parent custom field. Need help with this code

[KRC]

I use the following code to copy parent description to a scripted field called Parent Description. I need the same thing but now i want to copy a user picker customfield_14468 to scripted filed called PM. How can i call/define parents customfield just like i called parents description in below code? Any thoughts?

I put this code in the scripted field.

Thanks

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue;
import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField;
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
if (issue.getProjectObject().getKey() == 'MCO')
{
def field =ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObjectByName("Parent description")
def newfield = issue.getParentObject().description;
return newfield;
}

[Ivan Tovbin · Accepted solution]

You can do it like so:

def parentCf = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObject(14468)
return issue.getParentObject().getCustomFieldValue(parentCf)

Just make sure your scripted field is using a proper template and searcher if you want the data to be displayed correctly. 

[KRC]

Hi @Ivan Tovbin

I replaced with your suggested code and i get the error as attached.

I chose the template as user picker single

When u say searcher, what are you referring to?

I want the code to work so that parents custom field value will be copied over to a scripted field. So whenever i update parent, the updates will flow thru the new scripted field. it was successful when i copied parent description and summary

[KRC]

I modified code a little to this. User picker from parent shows a user and this new scripted filed is suppose to show the same user. instead it shows as anonymous. please see attched screenshot

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue;
import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUsers
import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField;
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
if (issue.getProjectObject().getKey() == 'MCO')
{
def field =ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObjectByName("Program Manager.")
def parentCf = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObject("customfield_14468")
return parentCf
}

[Ivan Tovbin]

Yeah, Scriptrunner can be very annoying at times with its Static Type Checking not always being accurate. In this case I'm quite certain you can pretty much ignore this error. Or you can change: 

getCustomFieldObject(14468)

 to

getCustomFieldObject(14468.toLong())

and this should make this error go away.

By searcher I mean a search template which is being used to to index and searth this field. For a user picker type custom field make sure the search template is set to 'User Picker & Group Searcher'

[Ivan Tovbin]

Yep, your user picker data is rendered as 'Anonimous' because an incorrect search template is set for this field. Check the above comment to fix it.

[Ivan Tovbin]

Also, your code is wrong, because it returns a CustomField object instead of its value for a given issue. Please try the code I provided and see if it works.

[KRC]

Thank you for the inputs. Will try and let you know

[KRC]

It works. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[Ivan Tovbin]

@KRC Great news! Please mark this solution as "Accepted" if it resolved your issue.