Does anyone have a code snippet to display a group name in a jira email notification

[Maria DePasquale]

I have a Post Transition Script to send an email.  I can't figure out how to display the name of a Group Field selected on a ticket.  

I was trying to use this:

Testing Group : <% out << issue.getCustomFieldValue(com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObjectByName("Testing Group")) %> \n

The group name is not rendered.  I get this instead:

Testing Group : [com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.impl.ImmutableGroup@c2848020] 

The above code does work for displaying a user name in a user field however.

I also tried this:

def groupManager = ComponentAccessor.groupManager
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.customFieldManager
def groupNameField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Testing Group")
def groupNameSelected = issue.getCustomFieldValue(groupNameField) as List
def gn = groupNameSelected[0].toString()
def group = groupManager.getGroup(gn.getName())

... but to no avail.  I'm guessing this is easy for an experience groovy programmer... thoughts?

[Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority]

If you don't want to write scripts to include fields in custom notifications, take a look at an app that allows you to pick fields in an easy email template configuration UI like Notification Assistant for Jira (we make this)

[Maria DePasquale]

Thanks but a purchased solution is not possible.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You're pretty close, just one more thing to add to your code.

The line

issue.getCustomFieldValue(com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObjectByName("Testing Group"))

is getting a list of groups selected in the field, and the items on the list are group objects, not strings.  You're getting the [com...] because that's what Java does when you try to print an object out as a string.

Your second block of code is also going in the right direction, but the line starting "def gn = " is going to do much the same - it's converting a group object to a string. 

I think you can replace the "toString()" in that line with "getName()"

[Maria DePasquale]

I tried your suggestion on the second code snippet... this code 

def groupManager = ComponentAccessor.groupManager
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.customFieldManager
def groupNameField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Testing Group")
def groupNameSelected = issue.getCustomFieldValue(groupNameField) as List
def gn = groupNameSelected[0].getName()

yields this error:

he following log information was produced by this execution. Use statements like:log.info("...") to record logging information.

2020-10-19 10:06:37,700 ERROR Tab=postfunctions&workflowTransition=1&highlight=6
groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: ComponentAccessor for class: Script7
 at Script7.run(Script7.groovy:14)

I believe this is the issue:  def customFieldManager <-- deprecated but not sure how to replace


You didn't suggest which extra line I should add to the first code snippet.  Since I tried about 50 different permutations of the first code snippet and searched the internet far and wide, I finally broke down to see if anyone had the code because I'm not an experience groovy tester.

My final workaround in the absence of code was to create a text field and use a Post Transition to copy the Group field entry to the text field and then simply display the text field in the email notification since I can get that to work in the script.  I don't have unlimited time to get these issues resolved so I had to come up with something (albeit not very elegant).

def group = groupManager.getGroup(gn.getName())