Setting description of customfield using Jira api doesnt actually reflect on UI until Jira is restarted

[Nazia Tarannum]

Setting the description of a custom field using the Jira API doesn't actually reflect the new value on the UI until Jira is restarted.

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ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObjectByName("Field Name").setDescription("This is description of field");

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[Henning Tietgens]

I use this Groovy script (using Script Runner) to update the field description for all field configs. Maybe this is helpful for you.

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.exception.DataAccessException
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.layout.field.*

cfName = 'My Customfield'
cfDesc = ''

FieldLayoutManager fieldLayoutManager = ComponentAccessor.getFieldLayoutManager()
CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

// get all existing FieldLayouts
List<FieldLayoutScheme>	fieldLayoutSchemes =  fieldLayoutManager.getFieldLayoutSchemes()
List<Long> fieldLayoutIds = []
fieldLayoutSchemes.each{ fieldLayoutScheme ->
    Collection<FieldLayoutSchemeEntity> fieldLayoutSchemeEntities = fieldLayoutScheme.getEntities()
    fieldLayoutSchemeEntities.each{ fieldLayoutSchemeEntitiy ->
        fieldLayoutIds << fieldLayoutSchemeEntitiy.getFieldLayoutId()
    }
}
fieldLayoutIds = fieldLayoutIds.unique()
List<FieldLayout> fieldLayouts = fieldLayoutIds.collect{Long fieldLayoutId -> fieldLayoutManager.getFieldLayout(fieldLayoutId as Long)}

// get custom field
CustomField cfObj = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName(cfName)

// change description
fieldLayouts.each{fieldLayout ->
    FieldLayoutItem fieldLayoutItem = fieldLayout.getFieldLayoutItem(cfObj)
    if (fieldLayoutItem) {
        try {
            if (!fieldLayout.isDefault()) {
                efl = fieldLayoutManager.getEditableFieldLayout(fieldLayoutItem.getFieldLayout().getId())
                efl.setDescription(fieldLayoutItem, cfDesc)
                fieldLayoutManager.storeEditableFieldLayout(efl)
            } else {
                efdl = fieldLayoutManager.getEditableDefaultFieldLayout()
                efdl.setDescription(fieldLayoutItem, cfDesc)
                fieldLayoutManager.storeEditableDefaultFieldLayout(efdl)
            }
        }
        catch (DataAccessException e) {
            log.error "$e"
        }
    }
}
fieldLayoutManager.refresh()

[Nazia Tarannum]

no, it doesnt work,

someone pls help.

[Henning Tietgens]

For the custom field descriptions displayed in an issue the FieldLayoutManager stores the description. The description isn't automatically updated in the field layouts. Try

ComponentAccessor.getFieldLayoutManager().refresh()

after updating the description.

[Nazia Tarannum]

no, it doesnt work,

someone pls help.

[SuhailM]

Try this-

String customFieldOldValue = customField.getValue(currentIssue);

ModifiedValue modifiedValue = new ModifiedValue(customFieldOldValue, newValue);
customField.updateValue(customFieldLayoutItem, currentIssue, modifiedValue, issueChangeHolder);

[Nazia Tarannum]

But you are talking about setting customfield value.

And am talking about setting customfield description not value.

Please read my question carefully.