Compare fields between issues

Question

Hi,

On a same project I have two issueTypes using the same issue screen. The first issue type is used to create "templates" where you can use the "create linked issue" to create a new issue based on the first one.

Company users are asking if we can highlight the difference between the template and the issue linked. I was thinking about making a comparison between every fields from the template and the issue linked. Do you see any way to do that ?

Thanks for your help,

Regards

Arthur SALMON · Answer

Thank you for the quick reply.

This is what I was thinking of. Do you think this is the right way to do or is there another way to do it ?

If yes, any clue on how to make it ?

I was thinking of a script that would do something like :

- get the project = "my project"

- get the issueType = "my issue type" (the one to compare with the template)

- get the template linked

- get all the fields for the issueType and compare them to the ones in the template

But after I compare every values (which will already be hard I guess cause there is date, string, number, radio buttons, dropdown list, labels...) I don't know how to summarise them for the user to be able to see only what's not the same.

Thanks,

Alexey Matveev · Answer

Hello,

You would need a scripting plugin for it like Power Scripts, ScriptRunner.