How to automate text to automatically appear in the description box of a new Jira version

[Tobias Viklund]

I'm trying to automate a bunch of text to appear in the description field of a new version in Jira, as soon as it's created. It's to basically have a template set up of all information that we feel are needed for a release page, like:

Version no.

Write version number here.

Build ID

Write build ID here.

And so on. Is this possible to automate in any way?

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Tobias Viklund 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

If I understand correctly you want to use Automation to edit the information in a Version when the Version is created. You are not trying to edit a work item. Is that correct?

If so, Automation doesn't have an action for editing the Version itself. It has actions only for Versions only to do the following:

Create

Release

Unrelease

It does have a Trigger for Version Created. You would then need to use the Send Web Request action to call the Jira REST API to edit the version.

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-project-versions/#api-rest-api-3-version-id-put

[Adonis ElFakih]

Yes that is possible.

Create an automation.

Trigger: On Create
Then: Edit issue

• Select the description field
• Enter the text that you want to pre-populate

The automation will add the text into description field everytime a new item is created.

If you want to learn tricks on how to add variables to the description, update it after it is created, etc.. check Atlassian Jira Automation Unleashed | Udemy that covers all of these topics and more