Create Sub-Task on transition

I did all of the above and tried it out.  No sub-task was created.  Do I have to tailor the JAVA source in some way and rebuild the JAR.

If no one objects, I would like to move this plugin into the Plugin Library.

I've adapted this code for the latest Jira release, and am having a massive problem.  It appears that this plugin will not work on the Create Issue transition.  I'm able to get a handle to the issue as an Issue, and create the new subtask from the fields, but when I try to call subTaskManager.createSubTaskIssueLink(), I'm having problems.  Specifically, it appears that because I'm in the Create Issue transition, issue.getGenericValue() is returning null on the original issue, which means while I can create the SubTasks, I cannot create the SubTask link.  Does anyone have any idea how I can go about doing this?

The instructions must be missing a step somewhere, as I get the same result as Norman.  The screen to add it to the workflow transition is there, but once the workflow is in place, it doesn't do anything.  No sub-task creation.

Thanks for sharing this plugins.

To make it workable in JIRA3.5.x, I did some midifications.

In the CreateSubIssueFunction.java,

GenericValue issue = (GenericValue) transientVars.get("issue");

--> Issue subIssue = (Issue) transientVars.get("issue");

Also you need to add a IssueImpl into the fields. Add myIssue.setProject(subIssue.getProject());.....and so on.

The API document of SimpleWorkflowManager.java is not correct because the "fields" parameter createIssue method only need issue(projectId and other keys are not necessary).

 Finally, it can work.

I followed all the instructions, but i do not see this plugin under Jira plugins when I go in Jira Adminstration. I also do not see the post function available. I'm using Jira 3.5, any idea abut what I need to do to get it to work

I have tried this on Jira 3.6 but it won't appear under Jira plugins.

Can somebody help me?

Do I need to do something to jar file?
I followed the instructions and put the jar file in the lib folder, restarted JIRA but it won't appear to plugins in Jira Administration.
This is first time I install plugin. What I might have done wrong?

Hi,

Will this plugin work in Jira 3.6? I added it, but no sub-tasks were created in the transition.

Do I need to do something to the plugin?
Is that 1.1 version of this plugin correct?

I had post functions before the issue creation. Now it works! Thanx, great plugin.

Need ideas on two issues:

1. I want to prevent the function from creating a subtask if it already created one. My workflows can, on occasion, re-run a step and I don't want to create the subtask the second time through.

2. I need another idea for the "create loop" because I want subtasks to be able to spawn siblings.

I followed the instructions for installation and configured a post function in my workflow. but i get the following error in my log file -

2006-09-05 03:05:33,974 ERROR \[atlassian.jira.workflow.SimpleWorkflowManager\] Error occurred while creating issue.
\[InvalidInputException: \[Error map: \[{}\]\] \[Error list: \[\[User 'null' doesn't have the 'Create Issue' permission\]\]\]

A nice feature would be use information from the "parent" issue in the name of the sub-task. For example use the "Summary" from parent issue as part of the name for the sub-task. Something like:

Sub-task Overview: $parent.summary - Accounting

When creating similar sub-tasks for different issues, this would automate the naming of them.

This is a great plugin. I need to automatically create a sub-task and assign it to someone other than the options provided (Parent issue's reporter and Parent issues assignee). Is there any way to change the Sub-Task Assignee so that I can point it at a particular user?

 Thanks!

Hello all,

I'm trying to get this working with 3.7.

I managed but I had to change the last function in the code by adding two parameters, the first one and the last one:

    private MutableIssue newIssueInstance(Issue issue)
    {
        return new IssueImpl(issue, issueManager, projectManager, versionManager, issueSecurityLevelManager, constantsManager, subTaskManager, attachmentManager);
    }

 Of course the function call must be changed too:

MutableIssue subTaskIssue = newIssueInstance(issue);

And the attachmentManager must be added to the definitions:

     private final AttachmentManager attachmentManager = ManagerFactory.getAttachmentManager();

 Not to mention the imports:

 import com.atlassian.jira.issue.AttachmentManager;

 With these small modifications the plugin compiled with the jira-development-kit-3.7-beta2 and was able to run with Jira 3.7 and actually to produce a subtask on a wf transition.

Cheers!

Bettina 

Hello,

since there were some requests, I attached my .jar with the update for 3.7.

I had to rebuild it but could not test it, so please test it yourself.

Cheers

Bettina 

Hello,

I described the changes i made to the source code in my posting on the 21st of december 2006 above.

I think this is enough detail if you are working on the source.

For those who are not developing and just need the .jar, I uploaded mine to the attachments of this page.

I'm not going to upload my complete package as source code, because I have no intention to kidnap this package, neither to support it. Please ask the authors.

Cheers

Bettina 

This plugin, which was working wonderfully in v3.6.5 doesn't seem to work in v3.8.  Any assistance or comments are very much appreciated.  Thanks.

Just uploaded an updated version for Jira 3.8.

Hi, Paul:

I used this plagin a while ago, when I worked with Jira3.6, now I have Jira 3.8, so I  download your attachment to my C:\Program Files\JIRA-Enterprise-3.8.1\atlassian-jira\WEB-INF\lib dir, followed all your instructions and I don't see "Create subtasks on transition" among Postfunctions.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Irina 

No, I don't see any Errors, I'm thinking of upgrading to 3.9, would it work?

Thank you, Irina

Hello!

Thanks for the plugin for the version 3.8 ! I am trying to customise it ( assign to other than parent or reporter) and i would like to have the source code.

Is that possible? Could you attach it?

Thanks! 

Yes, the source code for the 3.8 would be nice

I have this excellent plugin working on 3.9.1; can i get the source code. Need to modify it little to add the parent's summary in the subtaks created with some modification.

thanks

Some additions (check and bug fix) in version 1.2 for JIRA 3.8 and above required:
- check for parent issue is subtask (or subtask with same workflow for detect recursive creating if multi level subtasks "hacked")
- very required add link to parent issue on creating like this: issueObject.setParentId(parentIssue.getId());
I modify code for 3.10 and add setParentId, because some my custom functions in create subtask workflow not working without parent Issue (copy some fields from parent Issue), but waiting "official" version with bug fix