Cloning issue direction

[werner kolze]

Hi all - 

I have a rather large script which does a lot of stuff and I get it to work bit by bit - 

this last part is supposed to create a link to a cloned issue - which is does but in the wrong direction

I want to achieve that it creates an outwards pointing link 

             From the Parent to the Cloned issue

so in the PARENT ISSUE I would like to see:

   "is cloned by"  - to my definiton an "outward pointing link"

so I tried this
for (IssueLink link in linkManager.getOutwardLinks(issue.id)) {

and the CLONED ISSUE should have

         "clones"   - to my definition an "inward pointing link"

so I tried this
for (IssueLink link in linkManager.getInwardLinks(issue.id)) {

But I cannot get it to do this - 

It always places a 

 "clones" in the PARENT ISSUE

and a 

"is cloned" into the CLONED ISSUE

 [ START OF SCRIPT SNIPPET ]

def sequence = 0

for (IssueLink link in linkManager.getOutwardLinks(issue.id)) {

if ("Cloners" == link.issueLinkType.name)
{
sequence++;
}
}

Collection<IssueLinkType> issueLinkTypes = linkTypeManager.getIssueLinkTypes()
String linkID=null;
for (IssueLinkType issueLinkType : issueLinkTypes)
{
String name=issueLinkType.getName();
if(name.equals("Cloners"))
{
linkID=issueLinkType.getId();
break;
}
}

Long issueID = new Long(issue.id).longValue();
Long newissueID = new Long(newissue.id).longValue();
Long TheLinkID = new Long(linkID).longValue();
Long TheSequence = new Long(sequence).longValue();

linkManager.createIssueLink (issueID, newissueID,TheLinkID, TheSequence, currentUser)

 [ END OF SCRIPT SNIPPET ]

Any hint be very much appreciated

thanks a lot

Werner

[Tom Lister · Accepted solution]

Hi

have you tried reversing the issue ids in call

linkManager.createIssueLink (newissueID, issueID, TheLinkID, TheSequence, currentUser)

[werner kolze]

Hi Tom - your suggestion indeed turned it upside down - the right way - thanks a lot
 - I did not think it would make a difference, but never tried - I should have tried.

Thanks again.

[Tom Lister]

Great news

could you mark as answered for others to find

[werner kolze]

Hi Tom, I thought I did press the answer button - but it did not work - I have to use a different browser to get this functionality. It is the same for the REPLY button - it does not show in Internet Explorer - only in Firefox.

cheers