Using Scriptrunner to update group picker based on answer in text custom field

[Adam Gaudry]

Hi everyone

I have a custom field, which offers users one of five options. When they choose one of these options, I map their choices to the names of notification groups in another custom field. The idea is that I use this custom field to send emails to the groups, but I can't fire an event because it is only a text box, not a group picker. 

When I try to use the script to update a group picker, I get errors informing me I can't update the group field with string.

I am using this script so far:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue;
 
MutableIssue issueToUpdate = (MutableIssue) issue;

// create the map of Change Area names to approval groups
def approvalGroupMap = [
 "Option1" : "tech-approval-group1",
 "Option2" : "tech-approval-group2",
 "Option3" : "tech-approval-group3",
 "Option4" : "tech-approval-group4",
 "Option5" : "tech-approval-group5"
];

// get the change area value
def changeAreaFieldObject = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObject("customfield_15502");
def changeArea = issue.getCustomFieldValue(changeAreaFieldObject).toString();
def group = approvalGroupMap[changeArea];

// return the newly set field value to confirm
return group

 This code lets me get the scripted field the name of the right mapped group, but I fail to then update the group picker with this result in the same script. Any ideas how I do this with scriptrunner?

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Have a look at this how-to article, you need to assign the group variable the result from groupManager.getGroup

[Adam Gaudry]

Mikael, thank you so much!

I have followed the teachings in the guide, and have created the following script, which seems to work well.

I am still new to coding, so this has been a brilliant help. Thanks again

Adam

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder;

MutableIssue issueToUpdate = (MutableIssue) issue;

// create the map of Change Area names to approval groups
def approvalGroupMap = [
 "Option1" : "tech-approval-group1",
 "Option2" : "tech-approval-group2",
 "Option3" : "tech-approval-group3",
 "Option4" : "tech-approval-group4",
 "Option5" : "tech-approval-group5"
];

// get the value of the "Change Area" field
def changeAreaFieldObject = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObject("customfield_XXXXX");
def changeArea = issue.getCustomFieldValue(changeAreaFieldObject).toString();

//configure and define the value taken from the "Change Area" field as a group, rather than a simple string (this is necessary)
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
def groupManager = ComponentAccessor.getGroupManager()
def group = groupManager.getGroup(approvalGroupMap[changeArea])

//taking the group value defined immediately above, use it to set Techical Approvers Group field
def tgtField = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObjects(issue).find {it.name == "Custom Field Name"}
def changeHolder = new DefaultIssueChangeHolder();
def mv = new ModifiedValue(issue.getCustomFieldValue(tgtField), [group]);
tgtField.updateValue(null, issue, mv,changeHolder);

//test with a return group to make sure it is working.
return group