Can't set epic link in a script

[April]

Hi there,

I have a manager who wants to have a transition on epics for the purpose of creating a set of stories.

I can create his list of issues and set various custom fields for him in a pastfunction, but nothing I do sets the Epic link.

I have tried by issue ID and key, and also tried using a text custom field I created to hold the issue key value.

Logger.getLogger("com.onresolve.scriptrunner").setLevel(Level.DEBUG
Issue issue  = issue def id=sourceIssue.key
// Get the Epic Link field
CustomField epicLink = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName('Epic Link')
// Create the issue
issue.summary = 'Create tenant for ' + sourceIssue.key
checkAttachment = {attachment -> false}
issue.assignee = null
issue.setCustomFieldValue(epicLink,id)

I also can't seem to import any greenhopper methods nor call the epicLinkManagerImpl as a bean.

Is there any way to do this in JIRA 7.1 with the latest ScriptRunner, or would it help in any way to upgrade Jira? Maybe I could sacrifice a goat or something?

Thanks in advance for all your help!

[Alexey Belostotskiy · Accepted solution]

If I remember correctly, you should store issue object for epic link field. Like:

issue.setCustomFieldValue(epicLink,sourceIssue)

[craig.harris@fnb.co.za]

Why doesn't this work for me?

(is the issue type wrong?)

I get

2017-03-10 11:31:56,640 WARN [common.UserScriptEndpoint]: Script console script failed: groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: com.atlassian.jira.issue.DocumentIssueImpl.setCustomFieldValue() is applicable for argument types: (com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueImpl, null) values: [PMOA-40, null] Possible solutions: getCustomFieldValue(com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField) at Script1636$_run_closure1.doCall(Script1636.groovy:42) at Script1636.run(Script1636.groovy:28)

[April]

Yup, just test checkLink = {link -> false} in the subtasks, and that fixed it up just fine.

Thanks again for the save

[M Hoogenboom]

And clear the epic link. Thus:

checkLink = {link -> false}

def epic = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjects(issue).find {it.name == 'Epic Link'}

issue.setCustomFieldValue(epic, null)

Strange that you need both.. JIRA keeps suprising me every day..

[craig.harris@fnb.co.za]

Help!

Why am I getting (with the code above)

Error

No signature of method: com.atlassian.jira.issue.DocumentIssueImpl.setCustomFieldValue() is applicable for argument types: (com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.ImmutableCustomField, null) values: [Epic Link, null] Possible solutions: getCustomFieldValue(com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField)

[M Hoogenboom]

which version of JIRA do you have?

[April]

We are on 7.2.7 Server, with ScriptRunner latest

[M Hoogenboom]

You need the MutableIssue interface. If you use this method from a ScriptRunner workflow function, the issue is already of type MutableIssue. If you write your own groovy script, you have to use com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue.

[April]

I think this all depends on exactly where you run the statements.

I am using them as a condition with the built-in post function to create a sub-task.Works fine.

It looks like other folks in the thread may be trying these lines in the console or perhaps a custom script, so of course this will behave differently, as the imports and variable declarations in the built-in script will not be present in the console.

[April]

Holy cow IT WORKS!!!!

Alexey, you are awesome

The only bad thing that happened is that on the Training issue type, which creates a set of subtasks on creation, it copied the Epic link to those.

Do you think I could get rid of that with checkLink = {link -> false}, or is that fallout from that recent bug I think I recall seeing?

[Alexey Belostotskiy]

Epic Link is different from usual issue links, you should set value of this field to null in cloned issue.

More here https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/40003636

[April]

Ah, I see what you mean. I bet this only seemed to work because of the subtask issue type.

For safety, I've also added:

//Kill the little b*tard 
def epic = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjects(issue).find {it.name == 'Epic Link'} 
issue.setCustomFieldValue(epic, null)