Update the Priority of an Issue in Jira

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Overview

Automatically update the priority of issues in Jira. This can be used for bulk updating priorities, or as part of a larger script.

Example

When issues have been open for more than one week without them being transitioned into 'In Progress', I want the issue priority to increase one level above their current priority. For example, I want the 'Low' priority issues to change to 'Medium', 'Medium' priority issues to change to 'High'.

Requirements

Jira (7.3 - 7.13)

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.event.type.EventDispatchOption

// the key of the issue we will update
final String issueKey = "JRA-1"

// the name of the priority to set
final String priorityName = "High"

// set to true in order to send an email
final boolean sendMail = false

def issueService = ComponentAccessor.issueService
def loggedInUser = ComponentAccessor.jiraAuthenticationContext.loggedInUser
def issue = ComponentAccessor.issueManager.getIssueByCurrentKey(issueKey)

def availablePriorities = ComponentAccessor.constantsManager.priorities
def highPriority = availablePriorities.find { it.name == priorityName }

assert highPriority : "Could not find priority with name $priorityName. Available priorities are ${availablePriorities*.name.join(", ")}"

def issueInputParams = issueService.newIssueInputParameters()
issueInputParams.with {
    priorityId = highPriority.id
}

def updateValidationResult = issueService.validateUpdate(loggedInUser, issue?.id, issueInputParams)
assert updateValidationResult.isValid() : updateValidationResult.errorCollection

def updateResult = issueService.update(loggedInUser, updateValidationResult, EventDispatchOption.ISSUE_UPDATED, sendMail)
assert updateResult.isValid() : updateResult.errorCollection

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