Label Counting

[Adam Taylor]

Hello,

I'm trying to add some automation so that when a certain amount of matching labels are added in a calendar month, they automatically get an additional label added to them for our Engineering Team to then review. Is this possible?

I would have thought you could do it be having a trigger of when a label field is edited and then creating a query to see if that label has been used 5 times maybe but don't know how to create the count part of the query. I'm also presuming that i would need to use some smart fields within my query but again i've hit a brick wall. 

Any help would be greatly welcomed.

Regards

Adam

[Chris Buzon]

I'm not exactly sure how you would do this in practice, but you could try to create an automation that will check for when a lookup (JQL query) has more than 5 results, then do the label edit. 

Try using a Lookup action (that is passed into a smart object called {{LookupIssues}}),
Pass that smart object into an advanced branch and in the branch check to see if {{LookupIssues.size}} is larger than 5
Then you can edit the tickets by updating the label.

This is a complicated request, you'll have to experiment quite a bit to make it work.

I would probably do this work another way, like using the Lookup action and then if the results were more than 5, send a message to a slack channel (or something like that).  I find labels to be a bit unwieldy.