How to copy field from parent to subtask on create screen?

[Claudie]

Hi, 

I'd like to copy fields from parent to subtask on create screen.

Whenever I create subtask, I want to get the field value from parent.

I've tried to use both listener and script runner, but I've failed. 

What more should I do? What more settings should I make?

ref. https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/5.4.47/jira/recipes/behaviours/subtask-default-fields.html

I added below script on 'Behaviour Settings > Initialiser' but it's not working.

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.Option
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
import com.atlassian.jira.web.util.OutlookDate
import com.atlassian.jira.web.util.OutlookDateManager
import com.onresolve.jira.groovy.user.FieldBehaviours
import com.onresolve.jira.groovy.user.FormField
import groovy.transform.BaseScript

import java.sql.Timestamp

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

@BaseScript FieldBehaviours fieldBehaviours

FormField field = getFieldById(getFieldChanged())
FormField parent = getFieldById("parentIssueId")
Long parentIssueId = parent.getFormValue() as Long

if (!parentIssueId || field.getFormValue()) {
// this is not a subtask, or the field already has data
return
}

def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()
def parentIssue = issueManager.getIssueObject(parentIssueId)
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

// REMOVE OR MODIFY THE SETTING OF THESE FIELDS AS NECESSARY
getFieldById(SUMMARY).setFormValue(parentIssue.summary)
getFieldById(PRIORITY).setFormValue(parentIssue.getPriority().id)

//OutlookDate outlookDate = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(OutlookDateManager).getOutlookDate(Locale.getDefault())
//getFieldById(DUE_DATE).setFormValue(outlookDate.formatDMY(parentIssue.getDueDate()))

//getFieldById(COMPONENTS).setFormValue(parentIssue.componentObjects*.id)
//getFieldById(AFFECTED_VERSIONS).setFormValue(parentIssue.affectedVersions*.id)
//getFieldById(FIX_FOR_VERSIONS).setFormValue(parentIssue.fixVersions*.id)
//getFieldById(ASSIGNEE).setFormValue(parentIssue.assigneeId)
//getFieldById(ENVIRONMENT).setFormValue(parentIssue.environment)
getFieldById(DESCRIPTION).setFormValue(parentIssue.description)
//getFieldById(SECURITY).setFormValue(parentIssue.securityLevelId)
//getFieldById(LABELS).setFormValue(parentIssue.labels)

[PD Sheehan]

Behaviour is definitely the direction you want to go if you want those fields pre-populated in the create screen.

But you missed a critical alert in the documentation page you linked:

This script hinges on the parentIssueId being present in the form. As such, you will need to associate the script with a visible field. It will not work as an initialiser.

So try to associate the script with the summary field for example.

Note that if you edit the sub-task after it's been created and then clear the summary field, then all the defaults from the parent will be re-applied.

You can fix this by changing line 21-24 to:

if (!parentIssueId || underlyingIssue) {
    // this is not a subtask, or the issue has already been created and we don't need default values
    return
}

[tobias]

Hello,
The script works great. Thanks for this. I wonder if it's possible to get the script to copy the attachments to the subtask as well?

[Lokesh]

Any possibilities to copy attachments too ?

[PD Sheehan]

Probably not from a behaviour implementation since the interactions are mostly browser-side or client-side. There are samples out there for how to copy attachments from server side implementations (e.g. in a workflow post-function)

[siva]

@PD Sheehan 

I saw your comment on this post and my issue is related to this and i used below script and it working perfectly coping summary field from parent to sub:task but here i need to add default value before summary (Tested:) and copied the summary from parent please help me with where to add script in the below script 

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.Option
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
import com.atlassian.jira.web.util.OutlookDate
import com.atlassian.jira.web.util.OutlookDateManager
import com.onresolve.jira.groovy.user.FieldBehaviours
import com.onresolve.jira.groovy.user.FormField
import groovy.transform.BaseScript

import java.sql.Timestamp

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

@BaseScript FieldBehaviours fieldBehaviours

FormField field = getFieldById(getFieldChanged())
FormField parent = getFieldById("parentIssueId")
Long parentIssueId = parent.getFormValue() as Long

if (!parentIssueId || field.getFormValue()) {
// this is not a subtask, or the field already has data
return
}

def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()
def parentIssue = issueManager.getIssueObject(parentIssueId)
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

// REMOVE OR MODIFY THE SETTING OF THESE FIELDS AS NECESSARY
getFieldById(SUMMARY).setFormValue(parentIssue.summary)

Thanks in advance,

Siva.

[PD Sheehan]

That's quite simple... just use groovy string interpolation:

def newSummary = "Tested: $parentIssue.summary"
getFieldById(SUMMARY).setFormValue(newSummary)

Any string delimited by double quotes can include variables or object values defined from elsewhere in the script. Just prefix it with a $.

If the expression you want to return is more complicated than just single words separated by dots, you have to surround that expression with {}.

E.g

def newSummary = "Tested: ${parentIssue.summary.toUpperCase()}"

[siva]

@PD Sheehan 

Thanks for the reply it is working once again thank you very much and very appreciated.

Thanks,

Siva.

[Robert Bromley]

How do you copy a custom field over?