JIRA Comments: Find reference to File attached in a comment.

[Shivashankar Boloor Prakash]

Hi,

I'm trying to get reference or copy the file attached in a comment of an Issue.  

As of now I'm able to get List of Collection<Attachment> from the Issue. Im unable to get reference to which comment that particular file was was attached.

Is there any other way to accomplish this.? 

[Ivan Tovbin · Accepted solution]

I'm afraid there's no connection between an attachment and a comment.

However I see two potential workarounds:

1) Check the body of each comment for the attachment name

OR

2) Scan issue history for the time when your attachment was added. Then check the creation time of your comments and see if you'll find a match.

[Sudhakar Jothilingam]

1) In body of api response, no longer has the attachment name in it. Seems this is handled in editor differently 

2) Scanning through history matching time stamp is not valid approach

  2.a) When we paste / upload  image it is uploaded to attachments collections first, then if user saves comment few minutes later, the timestamp is completely different

  2.b) What if I edit comment and insert image from attachments?

Would appreciate if there is any other solution on this!!

"body":{
"version":1,
"type":"doc",
"content":[
{
"type":"paragraph",
"content":[
{
"type":"text",
"text":"test2"
}
]
},
{
"type":"mediaSingle",
"attrs":{
"layout":"center"
},
"content":[
{
"type":"media",
"attrs":{
"id":"196e3404-817c-4ea7-897f-5df579710287",
"type":"file",
"collection":"jira-25169-comment-23180",
"width":200,
"height":183
}
}
]
},
{

[Vadym Kvasha]

Have you found any solution? Also, I tried to trigger an automation rule with "issue field value changed" and selected field "Attachment", so if that attachment is counted as the last I would able to access it with attachment.last smart value. But if you add and attachment with a comment (via customer portal) it does not trigger that rule(