How can I write a rule to check for updated fields and sync with linked issues and sub-tasks

Nick Hays

I have seen the tutorial to sync a value across issues for a specific field change.  Is there a way to have a single automation rule when trying to keep issues in sync for many different fields, say 50, and we don't know which field(s) were updated?  I have been researching 'changelog' thinking that could help, but have not been able to figure it out.

Darryl Lee

Oooh, that's a neat idea, and I made some headway, but ultimately failed. :-{

I was able to get the list of fields that had changed by:

1. Create smart value variable named changed with a value of {{changelog}}
2. Then create a smart value variable named changelist, using the match operator, which returns a list:
   {{changed.match(".*?field='(.+?)', .*?")}}

3. But where I got stuck, and where I always seem to get stuck, is that Automation doesn't allow nested or evaluated smart values.

   Then I tried this with Advanced Field Editing on all of the subtasks:

   {
      "fields": {
         {{#changelist}} "{{.}}": "{{issue.parent.{{.}}}}"{{^last}}, {{/}} {{/}}
      }
   }

   (Fully recognizing that this will fail for fields that are of list type, etc.)

The idea is that since {{changelist}} is a list, then you can iterate through it with {{#changelist}}, where {{.}} is the current item (name of the field that was changed). So I'm trying to get the value by referencing the field name with: {{issue.parent{{.}}}}

The problem was accurately described by joseba.ercilla@gailen.es what I'm trying to do is use it on a property access:

As he properly explained:

We will need either a way to force inline evaluation, or a getter method equivalent to direct property access...

I finally got a bug filed for this: https://codebarrel.atlassian.net/browse/AUT-2086

But since it's in Codebarrel's repo, there's no way to vote or comment on it. :-{

This has been previously discussed here:
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-concatenate-or-nest-smart-values/qaq-p/1374187

And here:
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Is-it-possible-to-use-nested-Smart-Values/qaq-p/1423642