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Pre-requisites

Before starting this tutorial you should have completed the

• Basics of Groovy tutorial or already familiar with the basic Groovy concepts and hence skipped it
• Groovy in JMWE, to know the usage of Groovy in JMWE add-on

Objective

By the end of this tutorial:

• You will have a local Jira Server instance with workflow extensions having scripts. However, note that the end product is not a complete functional workflow.
• You will learn to write Groovy scripts in JMWE

About the tutorial

This tutorial guides you through the following chapters:

• Prepare the environment
  • Jira 7.0.0
  • Install JMWE
  • Workflow to experiment with Groovy in JMWE
  • Create a Task Management Workflow
    • Create a Project Lead
    • Create a custom field "User who made the transition"
    • Create one issue
    • Create a linked issue
    • Create a subtask
  • Assign the issue to the Project lead if the priority of the ticket is High or Critical
    • Add Set field value pf
    • Select the value as PL
    • Add CE - issue.get("priority").getName() == "High" or issue.get("priority").getName() == "Critical"
  • Store the author of the transition
    • Add the Set field value pf
    • Select the custom field
    • Add GE - currentUser
  • Save the workflow. 
  • Remove JMWE post-function
  • Save it and share the XML
• Tutorial - My first Groovy script
  • Fetch the key of the issue
  • issue.getKey()
  • Provide reference to the issue variable and the getKey() method
  • What do you get as the output - Refer the expected value of each field type document.
  • What can I do with this Groovy script result? - that is a String
    • Either add this as a comment/Set a field that expects a String as input.
• Tutorial - How to write a condition - The result of a scripted condition is a boolean. It can be used either to Control the execution of a post-function or Control the availability of a condition or Validate the input during a transition.
  • Simple condition - Check whether a text field is empty or not
    • issue variable - Reference to variables documentation
    • Standard field, Access standard field doc reference
    • Custom field,  Access custom field doc reference
    • Compare the value to the required value
      • Use if() or
      • Optimize the code by returning the result of the comparison
  • Check the current user is a specific user
    • currentUser is the variable. - Reference to variables documentation
    • Explain its return value, and how to get the name of the user. -  Reference to User interface
    • Return the result of the comparison to the specific username
  • Check the priority of the issue
    •  issue variable - Reference to variables documentation
    •  Standard field - Expected input type of this field - Refer expected field type document
    •  Issue interface - getPriorityObject() or get("priority")
    •  Priority interface - getName()
    • Standard field, Expected field type - Check the priority - Priority object
    • Since it is an object, it has properties to look up to
    • Priority interface- refer
• Tutorial - Safe access a field - To explain on how to avoid null pointer exceptions
• Tutorial - How to return a simple value - 
• Tutorial -