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Automation for JIRA to clear a field value

Andrew Tran

Please help to create an automation that clears a fields value using Automation for JIRA.

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Andrew Tran

This is currently what i have but it does not work.

Johan Soetens _Dumblefy_

Hi Andrew,

I don't know your full use case but note that there are out-of-the-box Jira workflow post functions that can clear a field.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/advanced-workflow-configuration-776636620.html#Advancedworkflowconfiguration-postfunctions

unknown

Hey Andrew,

Thanks for reaching us. I'm from Automation for Jira team

It seems that you're trying to clean the custom field Baseline end date, right?

So, can you try to remove the additional field configuration?

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Then, you'll need to keep this field empty, and with this configuration, your field will be empty.

Can you give a try and let me know how it goes?

Have a nice day!

Cheers,

Chris

Martin H_ Sluka

Hi Chris,

I stumbled upon this issue, because I have the same use case:

Unfortunately, the solution you suggest does not work for me:

But the field is of course available for this issue; the issue got selected only because it has this field set.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Kind regards
Martin

Martin H_ Sluka

Turns out: The problem in my case was that the Actor did not have "Edit issue" permission.

Now that I've given it this permission, I can confirm that your suggestion works.

Regards
Martin

Konrad McClure SW

Is it possible to do this for the Resolution Field? I'm trying to clear it when reopening an issue but all of the suggestions I can find don't appear to work:

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Michael Spoonauer

I found that, if you are doing an automation rule where the trigger is the changing of the value of a field, leaving date fields blank to clear them does not work.

Instead, I have to use {{clear}} trick:

Solved: How to use automation to clear date value on chang... (atlassian.com)

Thanks,
Mike

Johnny Hermann_vg9cr0

Hi Mike, What "{{clear}} trick"? The given link provides no details.

I need to clear custom date fields "Target start" and "Target end" (created by Advanced Roadmaps), which are not visible in the field dropdown, hence must use the Additional Fields section.