JMWE: Conditional Validation based on a keyword contained in the Summary?

[Rebecca]

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to set up a Shared Action (Transition Issue) in Jira Cloud that should automatically move an issue to the status “Waiting for Approval” - but only if a specific keyword appears anywhere in the Summary (the summary contains additional text).

Example:

If the Summary contains the word “Hello”, the Conditional Validation should allow the transition; otherwise, it should block it.

Something like this: 

{{ issue.fields.summary.contains == "Hello" }}

--> the result should then be true (examle: Hello World / I want so say hello / ...) or false if it is not contained anywhere.

I need help writing the correct Conditional Validation expression.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the right syntax in the documentation or other community posts.

Does anyone know what the correct expression would look like using Jira’s conditional validation language?

Thanks in advance :)

[Thiago Wenceslau de Santana · Accepted solution]

Hi  

I’m Thiago, a support engineer at Appfire and I’m here to help you.

For the conditional validation, you can use the “includes” function. See the example below:

issue.summary.toLowerCase().includes("hello")

For this condition, it will match any “hello” contained in the summary, unlike the previous condition you provided, for a exact match, please use the expression below:

issue.summary == "Hello"

Please contact our support if you have any other questions about this.
You can also install this app here.

Best regards, Appfire support team.

[Rebecca]

Hi Thiago,

thank you so much! This is just what I was looking for and works perfectly well for my case!

Best regards
Rebecca

[Dick]

Hi @Rebecca 
Atlassian has several useful pages on smart values, but none contain the function contains.

The Jira Query Language offers the "like" operator, represented by a tilde:  ~

You can automate processing issues and check them using a conditional statement based on the outcome of a query;

issue.summary~"Hello" 

or

issue.summary.toLowerCase()~"hello"  

to catch different variations of the theme. 

Kind regards,
Dick

[Rebecca]

Hi Dick,

thank you for taking the time to look at my issue! Unfortunately, the ~ Operator won't work in JMWE nunjuck functions. I tried that and it always throws an error.

However, the solution of the appfire Team (posted above) works very well.

Thanks and kind regards

Rebecca