How can i copy attachment of one jira ticket to other jira ticket

[Sreenivasaraju P]

hi,

I want to copy attachment of one jira to other jira ticket. can i do this by code.

[Henning Tietgens · Accepted solution]

You could copy attachments from one issue to another like this

attachmentManager = componentManager.getAttachmentManager()
pathManager = componentManager.getAttachmentPathManager()
attachmentManager.getAttachments(issue).each {attachment ->
	filePath = PathUtils.joinPaths(pathManager.attachmentPath, issue.projectObject.key, issue.key, attachment.id.toString())
	atFile = new File(filePath)
	if (atFile.exists()) {
		try {
			if (atFile.canRead()) {
				attachmentManager.createAttachmentCopySourceFile(atFile, attachment.filename,
						attachment.mimetype, attachment.author, newIssue, [:], attachment.created)
			}
		}
		catch (SecurityException se) {
			log.warn("Could not read attachment file. Not copying. (${se.message})")
		}
	}
	else {
		log.warn("Attachment file does not exist where it should. Not copying.")
	}
}

issue is the source, newIssue is the target issue. This is Groovy, similar to Java. Hope it helps.

Henning

[Sreenivasaraju P]

thanks.

this answer helped to write my java code.

[Warren McInnes]

Hi Henning,

With your above code, Is there a way to copy the attachment from a relative location on the server where Jira is being hosted from? Thanks

See issue: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/306787/is-there-a-way-to-add-an-attachment-with-automation-on-subtask?page=1#comment-309412

[Henning Tietgens]

I don't know. It's a "normal" file operation which should work if attachments in general are working in JIRA.

[Warren McInnes]

Alright, no worries. Thanks anyhow

[Daniel Ray]

Would it work as a post function to copy to a sub-task?

[Henning Tietgens]

I think it should work for sub-tasks, too.

[Maria Thoma]

I added your code in my groovy script but I'm getting error

No such property: PathUtils for class:........

[Henning Tietgens]

You have to import it first.

import com.atlassian.jira.util.PathUtils

[Kevin Draai]

For the new Atlassian AttachmentManager API you can use:

attachmentManager.copyAttachment(attachment, user, newIssue.getKey().toString())

[MJ]

If you only have a handfull of issues in which you need to perform thins, I would suggest doing this manually. If you only want to use code, and/or have a large amount of attachments that need to be moved over, you might want to have a look at the JIRA CLI plugin. Example commands can be found here, i thin kit should be possible to make something with those. Within JIRA itself, it is not possible to perform through code, unless you want to hack around the database, but I would advice against doing that.
Cheers,