creating assignee from custom field value

[Surender Reddy]

Hi friends,

      I am creating 3 subtasks with Quick Subtasks for JIRA post function which looks like

 Creates the following subtasks according to this subtask template: 

- NSS /  cfield:"Project Title:@inherit" cfield:"Date Request Received:@inherit"
	

The issue type for the subtasks is set to Access Termination NSS.
Created subtasks are prefixed by their parent issues summary: Yes .

this creates subtask my question of how can I add an assignee automatically from a custom field(user picker) value from parent. which code should I add? I tried some but failing to pull assignee from the custom field(user picker). please help @Antoine Berry @Tarun Sapra @

[Surender Reddy · Accepted solution]

Time (on server): Wed May 29 2019 09:55:25 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

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

2019-05-29 09:55:25,898 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: *************************************************************************************
2019-05-29 09:55:25,899 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: Script function failed on issue: EAP-444, actionId: 1, file: <inline script>
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueImpl.getCustomFieldValue(IssueImpl.java:896)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue$getCustomFieldValue$7.call(Unknown Source)
 at Script84.run(Script84.groovy:7)

this is the error I am seeing can you help     @Antoine Berry  

[Antoine Berry · Accepted solution]

Hi @Surender Reddy ,

I do not use Quick Subtasks. Unfortunately, according to the documentation, it seems that you can only use @admin, @current or @inherit. 

I could help if you have scriptrunner though.

Antoine

[Surender Reddy]

yaa we use script runner  can you help with code and which post fuction to use 

Thanks in advance

[Antoine Berry]

You should use a custom script post-function in the create transition of the sub-task workflow.

Use this code (replace the custom field id) : 

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

int userPickerId = 12803
def userPicker = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(userPickerId)
def userPickerValue = issue.getParentObject()?.getCustomFieldValue(userPicker)
issue.setAssignee(userPickerValue)

Antoine

[Surender Reddy]

its showing error can see that please

[Antoine Berry]

Hi @Surender Reddy , 

Please save as is. It is showing an error because the groovy console is not detecting userPickerValue as an ApplicationUser object, but at execution time it will work.

Antoine

[Surender Reddy]

Time (on server): Wed May 29 2019 09:55:25 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

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

2019-05-29 09:55:25,898 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: *************************************************************************************
2019-05-29 09:55:25,899 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: Script function failed on issue: EAP-444, actionId: 1, file: <inline script>
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueImpl.getCustomFieldValue(IssueImpl.java:896)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue$getCustomFieldValue$7.call(Unknown Source)
 at Script84.run(Script84.groovy:7)

this is the error I am seeing can you help

[Antoine Berry]

Hi @Surender Reddy ,

You are using this script in a create transition right ? Make sure you make it the last postfunction. Also can you confirm the issue is created as a subtask ?

Antoine

[Surender Reddy]

yes its in create transtion and this is the last post function .  this issue is created using multiple subtask post function in parent issue

Creates the following subtasks according to this subtask template: 

- Security Groups /  cfield:"Project Title:@inherit" cfield:"Date Request Received:@inherit"

and the custom feilds are inherited from parent issue using  

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

//Your custom field ID
int cfId = 11902
def cf = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(cfId)
def cfValue = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cf)
def cfParentValue = issue.getParentObject().getCustomFieldValue(cf)

cf.updateValue(null, issue, new ModifiedValue(cfValue, cfParentValue), new DefaultIssueChangeHolder())

in a scriptrunner post funtion .  @Antoine Berry 

[Antoine Berry]

What does the logs return if you add : 

log.error("parent issue : " + issue.getParentObject()) 
log.error("user picker : " + userPicker)

between line 6 and 7 ?

[Surender Reddy]

sorry i did not get you what do you want me to add between 6 and 7 lines , i only have the code which you sent me 

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

int userPickerId = 12803
def userPicker = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(userPickerId)
def userPickerValue = issue.getParentObject()?.getCustomFieldValue(userPicker)
issue.setAssignee(userPickerValue)

and the error for this code is  

Time (on server): Mon Jun 03 2019 11:18:12 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

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

2019-06-03 11:18:12,488 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: *************************************************************************************
2019-06-03 11:18:12,492 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: Script function failed on issue: EAP-462, actionId: 1, file: <inline script>
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueImpl.getCustomFieldValue(IssueImpl.java:896)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue$getCustomFieldValue$4.call(Unknown Source)
 at Script108.run(Script108.groovy:7)

[Antoine Berry]

Yes, can you use this code instead : 

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

int userPickerId = 12803
def userPicker = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(userPickerId)
log.error("parent issue : " + issue.getParentObject()) 
log.error("user picker : " + userPicker)
def userPickerValue = issue.getParentObject()?.getCustomFieldValue(userPicker)
issue.setAssignee(userPickerValue)

Trying to track what is null here.

[Surender Reddy]

Still, there is an error showing, the transition is getting successful but post function is failing.

Time (on server): Mon Jun 03 2019 11:45:49 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

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

2019-06-03 11:45:49,954 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: parent issue : EAP-436
2019-06-03 11:45:49,954 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: user picker : null
2019-06-03 11:45:49,956 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: *************************************************************************************
2019-06-03 11:45:49,956 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: Script function failed on issue: EAP-465, actionId: 1, file: <inline script>
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueImpl.getCustomFieldValue(IssueImpl.java:896)
 at com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue$getCustomFieldValue$4.call(Unknown Source)
 at Script115.run(Script115.groovy:9)

[Antoine Berry]

See, user picker is null, is 12803 the correct ID ? You mentioned  11907 before.

[Surender Reddy]

yaa sorry I was changing the code from few days so forgot that and the post function is successful now, no logs found. but the problem is the assignee of the subtask is still unassigned.

[Antoine Berry]

Now that is a lot of post functions ! If you log the value of userPickerValue, what do you get ?

[Surender Reddy]

I am not sure about that can you tell how to log user picker value

[Antoine Berry]

use 

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

int userPickerId = 11907
def userPicker = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(userPickerId)
def userPickerValue = issue.getParentObject()?.getCustomFieldValue(userPicker)
log.error("userPickerValue : " + userPickerValue)
issue.setAssignee(userPickerValue)

 and paste the logs

[Surender Reddy]

it's returning the value of the custom field which is Eid of the Hiring manager. 

2019-06-04 10:51:33,722 ERROR [workflow.ScriptWorkflowFunction]: userPickerValue : e0o12mw(e0o12mw)

[Antoine Berry]

Try this, I added two lines : 

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.IssueIndexingService

def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

int userPickerId = 11907
def userPicker = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(userPickerId)
def userPickerValue = issue.getParentObject()?.getCustomFieldValue(userPicker)
issue.setAssignee(userPickerValue)

issue.store()
ComponentAccessor.getComponent(IssueIndexingService).reIndex(issue)

[Surender Reddy]

super super 

Its working hiring manager field value updated in subtasks assignee ..

great work @Antoine BerryBerry. Thank you so much for being with the issue until the end .

[Antoine Berry]

No problem ! Glad it worked out.

Cheers.

[Yashwanth Jakkula]

Hi,

My requirement is - Set assignee Automatically based on field value called Approver within same issue, used below script, but not working. Execution is success but Assignee value is not changed.

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.IssueIndexingService

def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

int userPickerId = 28200

def userPicker = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(userPickerId)

def userPickerValue = issue.getCustomFieldValue(userPicker)

issue.setAssignee(userPickerValue)

issue.store()

ComponentAccessor.getComponent(IssueIndexingService).reIndex(issue)

[Yashwanth Jakkula]

Made small change, it's working now.

Thanks!