How to Choose a Destination Project Based on the Parent Option of a Cascading Select Custom Field

Introduction

Imagine you have two instances,  SD and DEV, and you need to synchronize issues from SD to DEV. In SD you have a Cascading Select List customField, having two values: product (parent) & version (child). You want to select the correct DEV project based on the cascading field parent value 'product'. Let's say you have the following products and corresponding DEV projects:

• product_X => PRODX
• product_Y => PRODY
• product_Z => PRODZ

The scripts below help to map the parent value from the cascading select list to the projects.

Sending side

Outgoing sync

1 replica.customFields."Product & Version" = issue.customFields."Product & Version"

Receiving side

Map the parent value from the cascading select to the projects and if a mapping for the option is not found or the option is not selected, use PRODX as a default.

Incoming sync

1 def projectMapping = [
2	"product_X": "PRODX"
3	"product_Y": "PRODY"
4	"product_Z": "PRODZ"
5 ]
6
7 issue.projectKey = projectMapping[replica.customFields."Product & Version"?.value?.parent?.value] ?: "PRODX"

Drop the synchronization (indicate that you don't want to create an issue on your side) if you don't find a mapping.

Incoming sync

1 def projectMapping = [
2	"product_X": "PRODX"
3	"product_Y": "PRODY"
4	"product_Z": "PRODZ"
5 ]
6
7 def projectKey = projectMapping[replica.customFields."Product & Version"?.value?.parent?.value]
8
9 if (projectKey != null) {
10  issue.projectKey = projectKey
11  // your entire create processor goes here
12  // ...
13 }