When you add this post-function to a transition and trigger it, the add-on sets the specified value(s) on the selected field of all issues linked to the current issue through a selected link type. The value can be either a:
- Raw Value, when you select
Raw Value
as the Value type. - Result of a Groovy expression, when you select Groovy expression as the
Value type.
See- Groovy editor in JMWE to write your Groovy script
- Expected Groovy expression input for each field
- issue, linkedIssue, currentValue, currentUser and log variables you can use in your Groovy script
- Accessing the fields of an issue to use them in your Groovy script
- Groovy tester to test your written your Groovy script
- Result of a Groovy template, when you select
Groovy template
as theValue type
. See- Groovy editor in JMWE to write your Groovy templates
- Expected Groovy expression input for each field to write your Groovy templates
- issue, currentUser, textutils and log variables you can use in your Groovy templates
- Accessing the fields of an issue to use them in your Groovy templates
- Groovy tester to test your written your Groovy templates
Options
- Set only if empty
Sets the value of the selected field on all linked issues only if the field is empty on the linked issues.
- Ignore empty values
Will not set (clear) the selected field of linked issue(s), if Value
is empty or null.
- Add source value(s) to destination field
Appends the specified value(s) to the selected field of all the linked issues. This is applicable only to multi-valued fields.
Run as
- Run as user
Any user specified in this field will be the author of the copy performed by the post-function. Leave it blank for the current user to be the author.
Conditional execution
To execute this post-function based on the result of a groovy expression see Conditional execution using Groovy expression.
Error Handling
By default, all errors (Java Exceptions) raised by this post-function, including those raised by custom Groovy scripts, will be logged in the JIRA log file but will not be reported to the user and will not prevent the transition from completing.
However, when designing new workflows or troubleshooting them, it is more convenient to be notified immediately of any such error during the execution of the transition. On development and staging Jira instances, you can activate error reporting for all JMWE post-functions on the JMWE configuration page, and it is recommended to do so. But on production Jira instances, you might want to show errors only for the post-function(s) being worked on, in order to avoid disrupting other workflows. To make errors raised by the current post-function prevent the transition from completing and show the error in the browser, select Make transition fail when an error occurs in this post-function
.