Automation that gets the last created issue from another project and adds that key to the comments

[Brad Marsh]

Hi Folks. 

I have automation that creates a new issue which copies from 1 project (Project a) into a new project (project b). That works great, but trying to get Project a's issue to be updated with the issue id from project b. I can't get this to work. 

So an example here is 
Project a has an issue ID of projectA-12
Through automation it was able to create a new issue called ProjectB-3 it copied the content from Project A (this is what I wanted). With this now created I want it to update 

projectA-12 in the comments to say "ProjectB-3 was created" 

Any ideas on how I can accomplish this?

[Ste Wright · Accepted solution]

Hi @Brad Marsh 

You should be able to use {{createdissue.key}} as the smart value in a comment, to refer to the most recently created issue from within the rule.

For example...

• Action: Clone Issue
• Action: Comment on issue
  • Comment = {{createdissue.key}} was created.

Ste

[Brad Marsh]

THANK YOU Ste. 

{{createdissue.key} worked

[Ste Wright]

Awesome!

If this did help, could you accept the answer? Helps others know via a visual that it's the right solution :)

Ste

[Alex Hall]

Thank you @Ste Wright for this tip. I had used {{lookupIssues}} in other automations for this. Unfortunately when working with Forms, the automation can only exist in one project. My lookup needed to identify the newly created ticket in a different space. Apparently in a single project automation the lookup can only identify work items from the host project, even if the JQL is agnostic. 

Plopping this comment to express my gratitude and in the event anyone else runs into this peculiar issue.