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Abstract
This code snippet concatenates two text fields ignoring null values
Logic
Access the text fields and concatenate them
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Snippet
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org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.NullObject.metaClass.toString = {return ''} textutils.noNull(<First text field>) + "<Delimiter>" + textutils.noNull(<Second text field>) |
Placeholders
Placeholder | Description | Example |
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<First text field> | Accessing the first text field | linkedIssueissue.get("description").toString() |
"<Delimiter>" | Delimiter separating the text fields | "\n" |
<Second text field> | Accessing the second text field | issue.get("summary") |
Examples
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org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.NullObject.metaClass.toString = {return ''}
linkedIssue.get("description").toString() + "\n" + issue.get("summary") |
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The output of this snippet code is a String which you could, for example use in:
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A Groovy expression, for example to:
- Set a text field to the concatenation of two other text fields. Eg: The summary of the issue to the concatenation of two custom field values, say Customer Name and Machine details in:
- one of the Set Field Value post-functions
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Create issue post-function under Set fields of new issue section
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Code Block language js linenumbers true textutils.noNull(issue.get("Customer Name")) + textutils.noNull(issue.get("Machine details"))
A Groovy template, for example to:
- Include the key and description while notifying the customer when their issue has been resolved:
- Comment in one of the Comment issue post-functions
Subject/HTML body/Text body of Email issue post-function
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- Run a post-function
- Unlink issues
Use cases
A typical use case would be to add the summary of the sub-task to the description of the parent - On the creation of a sub-task add its summary to the description of its parent
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Code Block language js linenumbers true Your issue <%=textutils.noNull(issue.getKey())%> - <%=textutils.noNull(issue.get("description")) %> has been resolved.
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