Assignee populated with custom field (user picker) on transition

[Lena Hansen]

Jira version: v7.7.1

Scriptrunner version: 5.3.7

I found a script similar to the one below that I would like to implement using script runner. 

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser

// Get required Managers
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

// get a pointer to the Implemented By user picker field and its value
def userCf = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Developer")
def implUser = issue.getCustomFieldValue(userCf) as ApplicationUser

// If the Implemented By Field is not null then set the assignee
if(implUser){
issue.setAssigneeId(implUser.username.toString())
}

I have the script runner add-on, but when I put the above script in script-console, I get an error "the variable [issue] is undeclared". What am I missing? 

Any help is greatly appreciated. 
Thank you.

[Jenna Davis]

Hello, 

Sorry for such a late reply on this!

I believe you just need to make your issue into a Mutable issue so that you have access to the setAssignee() method. You can do so by adding this line near the top of your code, below the import statements:

MutableIssue issue = issue as MutableIssue

You'll also need to add in the import for the Mutable Issue class, which can be done like so:

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue 

Please let me know if this fixes the problem that you're seeing, or if you have any other questions. 

Jenna

[Lena Hansen]

Thank you for your response Jenna.

I actually got my script to work. I was adding it to the wrong place apparently. It works when I add it in my jira workflow by creating a post function (Script Post-Function).

I was previously trying to add it under “add-ons”, “script runner”, “script console”.

[Jenna Davis]

Great! I'm glad you got it working. :)

Just for future reference, the script console is where you would place script you want to be ran once on the entire instance. You were likely getting the '[issue] is undeclared' error because a specific issue isn't defined for the script console, you have to get the issue yourself if you want to run a script there using the IssueManager's getIssueByCurrentKey() method or something similar. 

I would recommend that you read over the ScriptRunner documentation for more information on what you can do with the different types of scripts.

Jenna  

[Lena Hansen]

That is very helpful. Thanks again!