User Picker Field: Condition to stop user from selecting themselves

[Uche]

Hey Community,

Need a second pair of eyes here...

I have a user picker custom field on the creation screen for an issue..

I would like to put a condition that checks the field and ensures that it does not match the current reporter. I have tried to take a look online but can't see much.

I have tried writing the User Validator (JMWE app) validator on the create transition for the workflow...and have used the below condition for the user:

issue.reporter.accountId != issue.customfield_11209[0].accountId

This does not work. Does anyone know how to reference currentuser() in JMWE scripts? also can't see this anywhere. Because then rather than using the above could I not just say [customfield].accountId != currentuser()

Thanks

[Alex Koxaras -Relational- · Accepted solution]

Hi @Uche 

Try something like:

issue.customfield_XXXXX.accountId != user.accountId

[Uche]

thanks will give this a try and see if it helps!

[Uche]

This works but when testing it on tickets where i am expecting the result to be true. The execution is failing. trying to find out why.

thanks

[David Fischer]

Are you getting any error?

[Uche]

There was an error during the execution of your Jira expression

Message:

Evaluation failed: "issue.customfield_xxxxx[0]" - Property name must be a string, found: 0 (Number)

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

Your single select custom field is not an array. Why are you using the [0]? The code should work exactly as I wrote it in my post.

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

On the validation if this 

issue.customfield_XXXXX.accountId != user.accountId

is true, then the validation pass and the transition should continue. If the the user picker field is equal to the current user, then the validation should fail and the transition wouldn't continue.

[Uche]

it defaults to [0] when searching the custom field in the issue fields tab for JMWE. accountId doesn't seem to be a recognised property without it.

There was an error during the execution of your Jira expression

Message:

Evaluation failed: "issue.customfield_11209.accountId" - Unrecognized property of `issue.customfield_11209`: "accountId" ('accountId'). Type null does not have any properties

[Uche]

Seem to have got rid of that error message but still not seeing the correct result when testing.

Getting a false result even though my user is the current user and also the user in the custom field. Will mess around with it.

thanks

[David Fischer]

The error you reported earlier means that the field is empty. Were you testing with a value for that custom field?

[David Fischer]

Hi @Uche ,

Is your field a single-user picker or multi-user picker?

Also, did you use the "Issue Fields" help tab to figure out how to test the value of the custom field?

[Uche]

Hi @David Fischer 

It is a single-user picker. and yes i did use the help tab but there is no info there that helps with the current user aspect of it,

Thanks

[David Fischer]

Right. The current user is described on the Globals help tab. You can refer to it as user.accountId

[Uche]

classic. was looking on the wrong tab. seen thanks.