Set a field in transition view after transition started and before displayed on screen

[Ops Lead]

Hi,

we want to set 'Due Date' to <tomorrow> as a default value for the transition view.

How can we do that?

Thanks in advance

[Maya S Chase · Accepted solution]

This is a little kludgy, but I think it would work. Create a custom date field that is defaulted to the value <tomorrow>. Add it to the screen, but in the field configuration, make it a hidden field. On the transition that has the view, set a post function to "Copy Value From Field to Field" and copy from your hidden field to the Due Date field.

The real difficulty comes because JIRA doesn't do relative dates - you can set a default date of today, or a specific date, but not something like "today + 1". However, there is a previous Answers entry on this, which should do the trick: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/1554/can-custom-date-fields-be-defaulted-to-a-value-relative-from-today

[Ops Lead]

This aproach would work only once in the life of an issue.

I want to set a field for the transition view between the user started the transition and before the view is displayed. How can I put a script - may called pre-transview-function or begin-transition-function - into the workflow?

[JamieA]

You can't do it with workflow functions... typically it's done using javascript.

[Ops Lead]

Does that become better with Jira-5?

[Ops Lead]

I'm asked to accept the answer despite there is an unanswered question.

Ok, I like to be a "good Answers citizen" and will click to accept.