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Automation: Advanced field editing for adding to array

Alena Samruk

Hi guys,

I have custom field Viewers. It's an array of Jira users. One issue can have many users in Viewers field.

I need to add automation to add all users from parent Viewers to child Viewers.

Could you please help me to specify an additional field correct?

That's how I already did it:

But it doesn't work. Log says:

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Alena Samruk

A couple of things to try would be to add a Log action before you set the field to see what that call to asJsonStringArray is returning.

Next, perhaps try just set it directly (without the coversion to the array) if both Viewers fields are list fields.

Best regards,

Bill

Darryl Lee

I agree with Bill, you should just try the built in function to copy value from Parent issue. It even has the option to "[x] Add to existing values" in case you don't want to overwrite any subtask viewers:

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Alena Samruk

Hi @Bill Sheboy , thanks for the answer!

asJsonStringArray is returning list of users, for example:

triggerIssue.viewers.asJsonStringArray: ["testuser","samruk"]

I tried to set it directly:

{
"edit": {"viewers":"{{triggerIssue.viewers}}"}
}

And get an error in the log:

No fields or field values to edit for issues (could be due to some field values not existing in a given project)

So it still doesn't work(

Hi @Darryl Lee thanks for the advice. I can't choose field Viewers using Built-in function. That's why I use the Advice section. But I saw on your screen you could choose Viewers field, how did you do it?

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Alena Samruk

You may need to use the custom field number/name in your JSON rather than the people-friendly name, Viewers. Please talk to your instance admin to learn the custom field name and then try that for the edit.

__Bill

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