Script Runner - Description formatting

[Adam Walker]

I am using Script Runner to create subtasks automatically within a project. Along with this I am trying to populate a description fro these subtasks.

Using code like this:

issue.description = 'Some Text. Next line of text."

My problem is I cannot get any line break into the description. Is there a way to do this?

EDIT: Things I have tried but did not work. "////",  "//",  "/r/n",  "/n",  "&NewLine;",  "&#x0000A;",  "&#10;",  "<br>",  "<br />"

[Taha Khanzada · Accepted solution]

Hi Adam,

Try using "\\\\" for line break.

Taha

[Adam Walker]

Thanks Taha, unfortunately this just got me a bunch of slashes in my description.

[Taha Khanzada]

Hi Adam, I have tested running this and both "\\\\" and "\n" are giving line break. Would you mind double checking again. What I can see in the description of this answer you have use *Forward Slash*(/) instead of *Back Slash* (\). Hope this helps. Taha

[Taha Khanzada]

Hi Adam, I have tested running this and both "\\\\" and "\n" are giving line break. Would you mind double checking again. What I can see in the description of this answer you have use *Forward Slash*(/) instead of *Back Slash* (\). Hope this helps. Taha

[Adam Walker]

You were right, my slashes we just pointing the wrong way. Thank you very much.

[JamieA]

I think it should just 

issue.description = 'Some Text.\nNext line of text."

[Adam Walker]

Thanks Jamie, I tried this as well at /r/n and both just printed out the characters.

[Eitan Yomtovian]

Replace \n with <br>: Use replaceAll("\n", "<br>") to replace newline characters with HTML line breaks before setting the error message.

summaryField.setError(errorMessage.replaceAll("\n", "<br>"))

This approach ensures that the error message is displayed with line breaks in environments where \n might not be interpreted correctly.

[Teresa Weeks]

The answers are not working for me, so I hope someone can help diagnose my problem with carriage return.  I used this: 

description: "Meetings with product team - management/leadership to design of agile roles and agile teams (scrum or kanban).   \n Create requests for JIRA project(s) to Agile Tools team"  

And got this: Meetings with product team - management/leadership to design of agile roles and agile teams (scrum or kanban). \n Create requests for JIRA project(s) to Agile Tools team

I used this:

description: "Meetings with product team - management/leadership to design of agile roles and agile teams (scrum or kanban).   \\\\ Create requests for JIRA project(s) to Agile Tools team"

And got this: 

Meetings with product team - management/leadership to design of agile roles and agile teams (scrum or kanban). \\\\ Create requests for JIRA project(s) to Agile Tools team

Any ideas?