Generating priority based on keywords in descripton

Ivan Kordic

Hello,

I'm working on issue generation by using Jira API and curl on Jira Cloud.

I have no problems generating new issues this way and everything goes smooth:

curl \
--request POST \
--url 'https://<URL>.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue' \
--user 'user@somemail.com:APITOKEN' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data @jiraData

jiraData:

{
 "fields":{
  "project":{
   "key":"TES"
 },
 "summary":"TEST",
 "description":{
  "type":"doc",
  "version":1,
  "content":[
   {
    "type":"paragraph",
    "content":[
     {
      "type":"text",
      "text":"description"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
"issuetype":{
 "name":"Task"
  }
 }
}

 

My question - is there a way to automatically assign the priority of the generated issue based on a keyword in the description?

Example - If the description contains words "old" or "outdated" automatically set the priority of the issue to High, but if it doesn't set the priority of the issue to Minor.

Can this be accomplished using only Jira, or do I need to make a script to scan the jiraData file and if it detects any of the keywords make the script modify the jiraData by adding the priority field and then running curl?

Krister Broman _Advania_

Only Jira, meaning not using plugins? 

Easiest way by a mile is to use one of the plugins that build more automation functionality like Automation for Jira. 

If you don't want to use plugins and are generating these issues then I would suggest that you build that functionality into the creation process.