How to concatenate various fields and add an auto increment number at the end to generate a key?

Question

Hello,

When creating an issue, I need to generate a key picking element by element from different drop down menus and at the end, to generate an auto increment number, all that concatenated should give me that famous key, for example: E1 + E2 + E3 + 001(autoincrement), how can I do that, please?

Many thanks!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

If you do decide to do this with a script, you will need to think of several things.

Field A + Field B + Field C is fine, but your autoincrement will need a place to store "last used" and you'll need to think about how it handles when a couple of people create an issue very close together.

And bear in mind the string is irrelevant to Jira and the people using it - they will be thinking in Jira keys because that's what they can search on, or jump to immediately.

Joe Pitt · Answer

Nothing out of the box will do that. You'll need to look for a plugin or a scripting solution.