Using a ScriptRunner Clone Issue Post Function, how can I set a comment on the cloned issue?

[Bert Dombrecht]

On Jira Software Cloud, I'm using the ScriptRunner Clone Issue Post Function to create a child issue automatically.

In the 'Additional Code' section I can update some fields for the cloned issue, for example:

issueInput.fields.summary = "Prefix " + issueInput.fields.summary;

However, I cannot seem to set a comment on the to-be-created cloned issue.

On Server, this was done as:

doAfterCreate = {

// Add Comment

    // dispatch an event after creating the comment

    final boolean dispatchEvent = true

    // the body of the comment

    final String commentBody = "Auto-generated Issue"

    // the author of the comment will be the logged in user

    def author = ComponentAccessor.jiraAuthenticationContext.loggedInUser

    ComponentAccessor.commentManager.create(issue, author, commentBody, dispatchEvent)

// Update Issue   

    issueManager.updateIssue(loggedInUser, issue, EventDispatchOption.DO_NOT_DISPATCH, false)

}

What is the way to do this in ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud?
I appreciate your help!

[Sebastian Krzewiński]

Hi @Bert Dombrecht 

Please check this docs:

- https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Jira-Cloud-ScriptRunner-How-to-add-comments-to-issues-in/qaq-p/1258613

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gppxfiEhxU

Both links are not exactly what you need but you can see an example how to add comment in Jira Cloud.

Regards,

Seba

[Bert Dombrecht]

Hi @Sebastian Krzewiński 

Thanks for your reply.

The information you shared handles adding a comment to an already existing issue.
In that case I can indeed use post("/rest/api/3/issue/${issue.key}/comment")

However, the crux here is that I want to pass a comment to a issue that has not been created yet (during the Clone action), so there is no issue.key yet.

I was assuming I need to use issueInput.update somehow ...

[Sebastian Krzewiński]

Ask Script runner support. Maybe they will have solution for that.

[Dimitri Cools]

@Bert Dombrecht  ever got any further on this ? I 'm struggling with similar scenario

[Bert Dombrecht]

I'm afraid not...