Concatenate Values of Customized Fields of Sub Task into Parent Tickets Customized Field

Question

Hi,

I have one customized Field (Developed by) in SubTask , It is Selection List Type.

Now, I want that a text Field in Parent Tickets (Developers)  manage automatically by Concatenate the values of Its "Developd By" Field of its all SubTask Tickets.

For Example :-

SubTask 1  having DevelopBy = "Amar"

SubTask 2  having DevelopBy = "Vishal"

Then Its Parent Ticket's Custom Field "Developers" should have value  "Amar,Vishal"

Please guide me how to achieve this ...

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @amar jeet singh sindal

Yes, you can do this with automation rules in Jira.  To avoid collision problems building the string, you probably want to do this based upon a change to the sub-task.  And, handle the case of the person not already being in the list

For example:

* Trigger: field changes for DevelopBy
* Condition: issue type is Sub-Task
* Condition: DevelopBy is not empty
* Branch: parent of the Sub-Task* Condition: parent issue's Developers does not contain {{triggerIssue.DevelopBy.displayName}}  (note if DevelopBy is a text field rather than a user field, you may remove the displayName part)
* Action: edit the parent issue's Developers to add the person:

{{issue.Developers}}, {{triggerIssue.DevelopBy.displayName}}

To learn more about automation rules, please review these references and examples:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-articles/Jira-Automation-all-the-resources-you-need-in-one-page/ba-p/1388465

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/automation-template-library#/label/all/1453

Best regards,
Bill

KAGITHALA BABU ANVESH_z1zl10 · Answer

Hello @amar jeet singh sindal ,

If you are on Cloud, please use automation for Jira.

Use the below links as reference.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-combine-two-text-fields-into-one-field-when-copying-a/qaq-p/1027531

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

Note: Me not tried. These from community articles.

Thanks.