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Get active sprint name in smart value for automation

Jason Anthony Montilla

I have a few issues that get moved from sprint to sprint. Because of that, the "sprint" list ends up being an array of names. My ultimate goal is to figure out which active sprint a certain issue ends up moving to a certain status ... like "dev complete" or something. I create a rule to output a custom variable where I clean the sprint name:

The problem is, I'm getting an array of sprint names when I move something to "dev complete" and I only want the sprint name for the ACTIVE sprint, not all the sprints this one issue is a part of or has been a part of.

Any help?

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Jason Anthony Montilla -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Yes, that sounds correct when an issue has been in multiple sprints which have closed over time.

One way to always have the current, open sprint is to add a custom field to issues, such as Current Sprint. And then create an automation rule to set it when the sprint starts for the issues currently in scope. This gets trickier if you often add issues to a sprint after it begins, and would require an additional rule to manipulate the sprint values.

Best regards,

Bill

Srinath Narasimhan_fl0mnx

A Little late to the party, but this seems to work {{issue.sprint.last.name}}

Good information here - https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-lists/

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Jason Anthony Montilla -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Yes, that sounds correct when an issue has been in multiple sprints which have closed over time.

Best regards,

Bill

Jason Anthony Montilla

Hi Bill, thanks for the answer! So I did discover something that may also be a possibility. I'm new to the conditional logic for smart values.... but I'm having a time trying to figure out how to loop through with a conditional statement. Here's what I came up with that doesn't work:

We start iterating the "sprint" list but we seem to lose the tie to it as soon as we break into the if. Any pointers there?

Bill Sheboy

Hi! Well, the A4J is awesome...and...it does have some limitations. ;^)

I believe that even if that syntax could work, it wouldn't for another reason: functions cannot work inside of an iterator structure (stuff with # / bracketing). I submitted a separate defect/suggestion on that one.

What is the format of your sprint name? Knowing that may help uncover how to parse this out. For example, if your sprint names contain the date values, you can definitely use the max/min syntax to get info and maybe re-create the name:

If that won't help, I suggest the work-around idea using the custom field and supporting rule.

Jason Anthony Montilla

Sure, I can look at that workaround. I just want to see if there is another way to skin this.

The sprint names are basically:

Sprint 123 - Some random text

No dates, but using {{issue.sprint.startDate.max}} on an issue in multiple sprints... how would I pull just the name of the 1 with the max startDate?

Hank_7f2dk4

Great solution, just what I needed, combined use with another custom field Completed in Sprint

Next I'd like to track "Number of Sprints Required", this is a metric we want to reduce.

Can someone suggest the RegEdit to count the number of Sprints in any given

{{#sprint}}

Hank_7f2dk4

fount it, no regedit required:

{{issue.sprint.size}}

Srinath Narasimhan_fl0mnx

A Little late to the party, but this seems to work {{issue.sprint.last.name}}

Good information here - https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-lists/

Yong Yang

The lastest jira software cloud has supported to edit the Sprint to the active sprint of a specified board. It helps me with auto populate the bug's sprint when created.

moparsley

Hi...Just want to note that your solution works like a charm even with DC/Server edition.

I was using {{issue.sprint.name.substringAfterLast(",")}} to no avail before coming across this thread.

context: I use it with automation rule to copy the last sprint value into a separate custom field to capture the actual sprint in which a story was completed.

Thanks

-MP

Benjamin Dains_l1mmxj

@moparsley this was a great solution. It seems like last actually goes through the array and picks the last one. I was able to use it to get what I was looking for (even though my problem changed to finding if an issue was in the backlog or future or active sprint based off of iterating through the sprint array) and it was relatively easy to do compared to other stuff I've seen online.

list.last

The last element of a list.

{{issue.comments.last.author}}

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