ScriptRunner Scripted Field rendering string not HTML Link

[Bogdan Gorka]

I am trying to implement a scripted field which will take very long html links from one custom field and display it as a short link in another custom field.

So, there are two fields:

CF1) SBM URL Link - custom field type URL Field, where I will store long URL links

CF2) SBM URL - scripted field which I am trying to configure to display only Lind to SBM

I thought that to display a string as HTML you need to select the Template HTML, which I did

This is the scripted field code:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField

CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
CustomField link_url = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("SBM URL Link")

def link_str = (String) issue.getCustomFieldValue(link_url)

if (link_str)
{
return '<a href="' + link_str + '">' + 'Link to SBM' + '</a>'
}

return null

As a result, I get a string not a HTML link. 

How can I make it work?

[Bogdan Gorka · Accepted solution]

A colleague of mine helped me to solve this one. I was very close anyway.

I should have used normal < > characters.

The proper code is below:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField

CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
CustomField link_url = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("SBM URL Link")

def link_str = (String) issue.getCustomFieldValue(link_url)

if (link_str)
{
//this line was incorrect in the previous code
return '<a href="' + link_str + '">' + 'Link to SBM' + '</a>'
}

return null

Thanks @Volodymyr Havryliuk