Clicking edit in Kanban board throws Exception: Uncaught SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list
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Problem
In any Kanban board, and in any project, when selecting non closed issue, and from right pane trying to use (...) icon, and option Edit, error is displayed .
An exception has occurred in http://xxx.xx.xx.xx:xxxx/XXX-XXXXX/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=19&view=detail&selectedIssue=PNPS-5 at 6:1 --- Uncaught SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list
After closing the error dialog, the issue can be edited without any problem
The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log
An error occurredHide…(2)
Please try refreshing the page, or contact your administrator / Atlassian Support if the problem continues.
Details
Exception: Uncaught TypeError: (intermediate value)(intermediate value)(intermediate value)(intermediate value)(intermediate value)(intermediate value)(...) is not a function
Resource: http://172.28.12.35:8838/GHS-30138/s/e0fea405dfaf51b75e050dcc9fb79d91-T/en_US-clvue5/6346/5/8e01c206ec75dc0abc823b95d725fcd4/_/download/contextbatch/js/greenhopper-rapid-non-gadget,atl.general,gh-rapid,jira.project.sidebar,jira.global,jira.general/batch.js?locale=en-US&jag=true&agile_global_admin_condition=true&jaguser=true&jpo.create-dialog=true
Line: 141963
Column: 2740
Exception: Uncaught SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list
Resource: http://172.28.12.35:8838/GHS-30138/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=19&view=detail&selectedIssue=PNPS-5
Line: 6
Column: 1
Environment
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.111 Safari/537.36
Stack trace
TypeError: (intermediate value)(intermediate value)(intermediate value)(intermediate value)(intermediate value)(intermediate value)(...) is not a function
at http://172.28.12.35:8838/GHS-30138/s/e0fea405dfaf51b75e050dcc9fb79d91-T/en_US-clvue5/6346/5/8e01c206ec75dc0abc823b95d725fcd4/_/download/contextbatch/js/greenhopper-rapid-non-gadget,atl.general,gh-rapid,jira.project.sidebar,jira.global,jira.general/batch.js?locale=en-US&jag=true&agile_global_admin_condition=true&jaguser=true&jpo.create-dialog=true:141963:2740Cause
There is a script on one of the system fields or custom field which is not correctly structured.
Resolution
Find for custom field that have scripts using this SQL query :
select description from fieldlayoutitem where description like '%<script%' OR description like '%<SCRIPT%';In this example, the script was coming from the Summary field's field configuration description in the Default Field Configuration (fieldlayout ID -> 10000). It appears this script is missing one closing bracket ')'. And is causing the javascript error:
Exception: Uncaught SyntaxError: missing ) after argument listClearing the javascript fixes the problem.