Jira integration to external source that supports a one-to-many relationship.

[rsstorey]

This activity is currently being prototyped within a Jira Cloud instance and if successful will be replicated within out self-hosted Jira instance on a closed network using a slight older version of Jira.

I support a Model Based Systems Engineering (MSSE) team using No Magic modeling and simulation tools.  One of my primary responsibilities is to integrate external sources into the modeling tool to create a SysML representation of the sources that are used to model our enterprise systems.  The primary key to this is to create SysML objects and their associations with other objects.

One of our primary data sources is Jira for may of the data types.  The data type I working on is a Jira project for our Configuration Management Configuration Items (CI) that represents the systems assemblies and software and hardware CIs.  These Jira CI issues need to link to our Requirements Management System which is Jama Software’s Jama tool.  The primary issue is that Jira needs to support a one-to-many relationship links.

The basic use case is that a Jira CI Issue must integrate to one-to-many Jama requirements items to represent a link that the Jira CI satisfies one-to-many Jama requirements where each satisfy link is an individual object and not grouped.  The Jira link should allow the user to select and access the Jama Requirement Management tools GUI for that specific Jama item.

Our attempts included:

1.  A Jira single text field where all of the Jama requirements were listed.  Did not support the use case.

2. Create multiple custom URL fields.  Did not support the use case.  Although it allows a link to the Jama Requirements Management tool, it requires the creation of up to 50 fields number xxxx-1 through xxxx-50 in order to support the few Jira Issues that have that many linkages.

We are now looking at defining a custom web link labelled “satisfies” and point the Jama CI Issue to the Jama requirement item.

The full end result would hopefully allow the use of TaskTop Integration Hub to allow us to integrate these Jira CI Issue custom web links within Jama where the Jama requirement item reverses the integration and points to Jira with an opposing “satisfied by” link.

I would appreciate any suggestions to support this activity from the community.

[Andriy Dekhtyar _Rozdoum_]

Hi 

We have implemented similar solution with one to many links stored in the custom field value in the specific format. The value stored thereafter was parsed to retrieve info relevant to relations. 

Hope this helps

Andrey

[rsstorey]

Andrey,

Thank you for your response but I cannot ascertain how you specifically solved this by the information you provided.  Not being a Jira expert it would be very helpful if you could walk me through the process.

[Juan Pablo Ramirez]

Hi, hoping to revive this thread. Have you guys been able to figure this out? Our team is looking to somehow link Jira with Cameo SysML tool but rolling no dice. I would appreciate your help. Cheers.