How to automate copying an issue field value into a custom field?

Martin Beke

Hello Atlassian Community,

When the issue is updated I try to copy the value of the custom field of type the name 'Entity and site' to another custom field 'Entity'. 

I created an automation rule for that process.

Because I want to use this field for the Pie Chard gadget both custom fields are Select List (cascading) type.

How I can copy a specific value from the custom field 'Entity and site' to the custom field 'Entity' to be set using a JSON object?

{
"fields": {
      "customfield_13429": "{{customfield_10205.Entity and site.value}}"
    }
}

unfortunately, these records get an error

SUPPORT-6955 (Can not instantiate value of type [simple type, class com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.rest.json.beans.CustomFieldOptionJsonBean] from JSON String; no single-String constructor/factory method (customfield_13429))



Any help would be appreciated!

Support Team [Clearvision]

Hi Martin

Sounds like you have one cascading select list and you want to copy the value and child value to another cascading custom field

If that is the case you can try something like

{
    "update": {
    "select list 2 (cascading)": [
          {
            "set": {
                  "value": "{{select list cascading.value}}",
                    "child": {
                        "value": "{{select list cascading.child.value}}"
                             }
                    }
          }
        ]
    }
}

where select list 2 (cascading) is the same of the field to be updated from select list cascading