Help With Custom Fields

[mcornille]

Hi,

First of all nice work, this module saves me time.
But i have a question about Set-JiraIssue
I want to update a custom field but this custom field is a dropdown field how do i update this?

field is called "Environment Sx" (customfield_11154)
Possible values: Production, Test, Acceptance, Development
I tried the following commands but that did not work:
Current value of that field is Development or id 14753 and i want to update it to production or id 14750

Set-JiraIssue -Issue $JiraIssue -Fields @{'Environment Sx' = 'Production';}

Set-JiraIssue -Issue $JiraIssue -Fields @{'Customfield_11154' = 'Production';}

Set-JiraIssue -Issue $JiraIssue -Fields @{'Customfield_11154' = '14750';}
14750 = Value Production

But the result of all the commands are the same: WARNING: JIRA returned HTTP error 400 - BadRequest

It is possible to get the current value:
$JiraIssue.customfield_11154
returns:

Is custom field with dropdown not supported or is my code wrong?

[replicaJunction]

Take a look at #56 - there's some syntax quirks when your field only allows specific values.

Basically, you'll want something like this:

$field = @{
    'customfield_11154' = @{
        id = '14750' # Production
        # You *might* also be able to do this with value = "Production" instead...not sure on that one
    }
}

Set-JiraIssue -Issue $JiraIssue -Fields $field

This is on my radar as something that needs to be documented better, but I haven't had much time lately.

[lipkau]

I created the PR https://github.com/replicaJunction/PSJira/pull/59 exactly for that reason.
I created the Get-JiraissueEditMetadata function, so I can query the allowed values of a field. Then you can get the id of the element with the value you are looking for

[hvikesaa]

What about a customfield with labels?
Get-JiraField gives this:

ID : customfield_14560
Searchable : True
Schema : @{type=array; items=string; custom=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.customfieldtypes:labels; customId=14560}
Name : Model ID
Custom : True
Navigable : True
Orderable : True
ClauseNames : {cf[14560], Model ID}

What I have tried is this:
$field = @{ 'customfield_14560' = @(@{ 'customfield_14560' = 'PROD' }) }

Error is:

Resolve-JiraError : Jira encountered an error: [customfield_14560] - string expected at index 0
At C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PSJira\1.2.5.136\Internal\Invoke-JiraMethod.ps1:111 char:13

•         Resolve-JiraError $result -WriteError
  

•         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  

  • CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Resolve-JiraError

[lipkau]

Based on the error description, I would try:
$field = @{ 'customfield_14560' = @('PROD') }

[hvikesaa]

That worked, thanks!

[hvikesaa]

Since this worked out so well, I have another one.

From Get-JiraIssueCreateMetadata:

Id : customfield_14662
Name : Server OS
Schema : @{type=option-with-child; custom=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.customfieldtypes:cascadingselect; customId=14662}
HasDefaultValue : False
Required : False
AllowedValues : {@{self=https://jira.internal.com/rest/api/2/customFieldOption/20140; value=Windows; id=20140; children=System.Object[]}, @{self=https://jira.internal.com/rest/api/2/customFieldOption/20141; value=Linux; id=20141; children=System.Object[]}, @{self=https://jira.internal.com/rest/api/2/customFieldOption/20143; value=Other; id=20143; children=System.Object[]}}
Operations : set

$field = @{
    'customfield_14662' = @{
        id = '20140'
    }
}

It's no problem setting just the main field, but how to get the allowed values for the child-field, and how to set them?
I can of course see the allowed values in Jira (for Linux the field populates with ie. RHEL, CentOS etc, for Windows it's 2008, 2012...)

[lipkau]

What is the metadata for the child fields?

[hvikesaa]

Where can I find it? It's not a separate custom field.
An Issue that on the web shows both as "Server OS: Windows - 2012 R2" and "Server OS: Windows - 2008 R2", shows like this with Get-JiraIssue:

customfield_14662

@{self=https://jira.internal.com/rest/api/2/customFieldOption/20140; value=Windows; id=20140; child=}

[hvikesaa]

Using the REST API, I got the following output from that same issue:

And with PSjira:

Here's what I get when querying for createmeta:
"customfield_14662": {
"required": false,
"schema": {
"type": "option-with-child",
"custom": "com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.customfieldtypes:cascadingselect",
"customId": 14662
},
"name": "Server OS",
"hasDefaultValue": false,
"operations": [
"set"
],
"allowedValues": [
{
"self": "https://jira.internal/rest/api/2/customFieldOption/20140",
"value": "Windows",
"id": "20140",
"children": [
{
"self": "https://jira.internal/rest/api/2/customFieldOption/20148",
"value": "2000",
"id": "20148"
},
{
"self": "https://jira.internal/rest/api/2/customFieldOption/20144",
"value": "2003",
"id": "20144"
},
{
"self": "https://jira.internal/rest/api/2/customFieldOption/20147",
"value": "2008",
"id": "20147"
},
{
"self": "https://jira.internal/rest/api/2/customFieldOption/20146",
"value": "2008 R2",
"id": "20146"

[replicaJunction]

Give this a try. I'm guessing a little bit here, but I think this will work:

$field = @{
    'customfield_14662' = @{
        id = '20140'
        child = @{
            value = '2008 R2
        }
    }
}

# Add other params like reporter, priority, etc.
New-JiraIssue -Fields $field

[hvikesaa]

Works perfect! Thanks!