Issue with pattern match in Jira automation

Neil B_qgmusq

I am trying to parse the description field of a ticket raised by a separate integration.

The description field contains:

*Organization:* ABCTECH
*Owner:* John Smith

And I am trying to set another field's value using:

{{issue.description.match("(?<=Organization:\* ).*")}}

 

Testing the regex separately returns the match, the automation runs, but the field is never populated.

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Neil B -- Welcome the Atlassian Community!

Have you tried a simpler match expression to return the value, perhaps to the audit log before trying the field edit?

In my experience thus far, the regular expression handling for automation rules does not consistently implement the references in the documentation.  And, even within a rule some different rule components may lead to different behaviors...particularly when leading/trailing smart value expressions collapse to null.

Kind regards,
Bill