Problem with Behaviour on Assignee field

[Jozef Vandenmooter]

We have a requirement for the Assignee field to have an Assignee in all statuses and all issue types except for the initial status. To avoid having to add a Field Required (JSU) Validator to each and every transition (which would still allow blanking out the Assignee when the issue is static), we implemented a Behaviour:

// Make Assignee field required
import static com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueFieldConstants.*
// Field is not required during Create
if (getActionName() != "Create"){
    // Field is not required in an initial status
    if (!(underlyingIssue.getStatus().getName() in ["Backlog","Triage"])){ 
         getFieldById(ASSIGNEE).setRequired(true)
    }
}

However, even though the field now appears Required, and it does not accept selecting Unassigned, it still allows being blanked out, which results in the issue being Unassigned. 

It appears a blank field corresponds to "Automatic", which the Behaviour accepts as a non-blank value, and "Automatic" results in a value of "Unassigned" in our projects.

Is there any way to get this to work properly?

[Kirkie · Accepted solution]

I have had success with this. Can you try it out and let me know how it goes?

import static com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueFieldConstants.*

// Field is not required during Create
if (getActionName() != "Create"){

// Field is not required in an initial status
if (!(underlyingIssue.getStatus().getName() in ["Backlog","Triage"])){ 
def assignee = getFieldById("assignee")
def user = assignee.getValue()

assignee.setRequired(true)


if((user as String == '-1') || !user){
assignee.setError("You must add an assignee.")
}
else { assignee.clearError() }
}
}

[Lwandile Rorwana]

Hi @Jozef Vandenmooter and @Kirkie 

Could you give me a step-by-step guide on implementing this Behavior?

I'm struggling to get this script working. I think I'm missing some libraries.

you help will be highly appreciated in this regard,

Thanks

Lwandile  

[Lwandile Rorwana]

these are the errors I'm getting:

[Static type checking] - Cannot find matching method Script614#getActionName(). Please check if the declared type is correct and if the method exists.

[Static type checking] - The variable [underlyingIssue] is undeclared.

[Jozef Vandenmooter]

Hi @Lwandile Rorwana ,

Below is the code that works fine for me. 

// Make Assignee field required

def issueStatus = underlyingIssue?.getStatus()?.getName()
def issueType = underlyingIssue?.getIssueType()?.getName()
def assignee = getFieldById("assignee")
def user = assignee.getValue()

// Field is not required during Create
if (getActionName() != "Create") {

  // Field is not required in initial and end statuses (To Do is not an initial status of the Story and Task)
  // if (!(issueStatus in ["Open", "Backlog","Triage","To Do","Closed","Done"]) || (issueStatus == "To Do" && issueType in ["Story","Task"])) { 
  // This is not in Prod:
  if (!(issueStatus in ["Backlog","Triage","To Do","Open","Closed","Done"]) || (issueStatus == "To Do" && issueType in ["Story","Task"]) || getActionName() == "In Progress") { 
     assignee.setRequired(true)
     if ((user as String == '-1') || !user) {
        assignee.setError("You must select an Assignee.")
     }
     else {
       assignee.clearError() 
     }
  } 
}

[Lwandile Rorwana]

Hi @Jozef Vandenmooter ,

Thank you for your prompt feedback.

could you please walk me through on how you implemented this behavior?

It's still not working when I tried it on the script console here are the errors I'm getting. 

this is how I configured the behavior 

Thanks

[Jozef Vandenmooter]

Hi @Lwandile Rorwana 

I don't understand why you're getting those errors... Below screenshots of how I have it set up. 

[Lwandile Rorwana]

@Jozef Vandenmooter 

Many thanks this actually worked.

L