Increment a Scripted Field

[Chris K.]

I'm wanting to increment the value of a custom field by one as a post function in a workflow. I was initially thinking of creating a Scripted Field custom field type and incrementing that way but it doesn't look like there's a way to retain that field's value (i.e. it has to be calculated using other fields in real-time).

I was then thinking of using a "Text Field (read only)" and using a Groovy script in the post function to increment. But because that's text, I'm assuming there's no way to numerically evaluate that in a JQL (e.g. give me all issues where that value > 3).

Is there anything else I can do? I basically want the equivilent of the read only text field but have it be a read only number field.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You've worked your way through all the clever ways you might do this, but missed one possible approach!

Use a normal number field.  Have a script that updates it.  Do not put the field on any screen other than "view", so the only way to update it is with your script.

[Chris K.]

Doh! Of course! Thanks Nic!

[Steven F Behnke]

Agreed with Nic. It's likely easier to just +1 a normal number field.

As a scripted field I'd probably walk the workflow history and look at how many times an action was taken.