I have set up some automation rules that interact with each other to do the following: * Generate a standard release notes template in issues when transitioned to Done* Users will then fill in the template on their assigned issues * Identify issues ready for release based on their resolution date in relation to the end of the sprint * Format those release notes along with other issue information and create a confluence page This is accomplished via a few rules: * :Rule #1 creates the release notes template (screenshot below)* * Rule #2 labels issues as ready_for_release if they meet certain time and resolution criteria * Rule #3 looks up those issues and creates a webhook to create the confluence page (screenshot below):* The issue is that {{Release notes comments.htmlEncode}} is a paragraph style field, and it appears like this in Jira: The resulting confluence only shows this as a single bullet, and I would like to bullet each line in the paragraph. I can put bullets in the release note template itself, but confluence doesn't seem to recognize these even when I use wiki style formatting (this appears to be a known Jira bug). See example below Any ideas for how I could get the webhook to bullet each line so it looks like the below?

Sorry, I am out of ideas for this one. The markup differences is one problem and solutions with list iterators cannot easily be nested when there isn't structure to grab. If those template/placeholder sections are stable, the safest approach may be independent custom fields, which you can manipulate easily onto the Confluence layout.

No your understanding is correct, and that is what I need. That is why I'm thinking my first thought won't work, but the second might. The other alternative is maybe creating a list of name/value pairs in json and then splitting that way, but I really am not familiar with how to operate on those fields

That smart value expression looks well-formed, and I don't know if it will work. You may need to experiment a bit and test this. My understanding of your use case was something like below, and so I thought the nesting of lower level bullets (e.g. sub items) would prevent syncing them later in the output with their "parent" if they were extracted. * here is some text* here is a sub item * here is another sub item * here is more text* this one has just one sub item In this example pulling out all of the ** sub items would disconnect them from the parent and so they could not be synched later on the Confluence output.

nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Add bullets to each line of paragraph style smart value for confluence webhook

Michael Fortunato

I have set up some automation rules that interact with each other to do the following:

Generate a standard release notes template in issues when transitioned to Done
- Users will then fill in the template on their assigned issues
Identify issues ready for release based on their resolution date in relation to the end of the sprint
Format those release notes along with other issue information and create a confluence page

This is accomplished via a few rules:

:Rule #1 creates the release notes template (screenshot below)
Rule #2 labels issues as ready_for_release if they meet certain time and resolution criteria
Rule #3 looks up those issues and creates a webhook to create the confluence page (screenshot below):

The issue is that {{Release notes comments.htmlEncode}} is a paragraph style field, and it appears like this in Jira:

release notes in jira screenshot.jpg

The resulting confluence only shows this as a single bullet, and I would like to bullet each line in the paragraph. I can put bullets in the release note template itself, but confluence doesn't seem to recognize these even when I use wiki style formatting (this appears to be a known Jira bug). See example below

confluence page.jpg

Any ideas for how I could get the webhook to bullet each line so it looks like the below?

expected confluence page.jpg

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Michael Fortunato -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I suspect the Release Notes Comments field is losing its form of Jira markup and then getting re-interpreted when added to Confluence.

Have you considered splitting the field on line breaks and adding your own Confluence Markup for bullets: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-confluence-wiki-markup/

Perhaps with:

{{#Release notes comments.split("\n")}}* {{.}}{{/}}

Kind regards,
Bill

Michael Fortunato

@Bill Sheboy Ahh thanks for the response. I was looking around to see if there was a way to identify line breaks. Let me try this out and see if it works.

Michael Fortunato

@Bill Sheboy so it looks like Confluence just doesn't respect the markup from the webhook. It just outputs the unformatted "* ". However, if i edit the page and remove the space and put it back, it turns it into a bullet.

However, the below seems to get me closer to the solution:

{{#Release notes comments.split("\n")}}<ul><li>{{.}}</li></ul>{{/}}

Produces the below:

bullets screenshot.jpg

However, now I need to find a way to produce the next bullet (e.g., the answer to the release note template)

Is there anyway to create a list from {{#Release notes comments.split("\n")}}{{.}}{{/}}?

For instance, maybe create a list from certain elements of the list?

Bill Sheboy

Do you mean to add the * Notes list item after each comment line?

If so, how about nesting within the iterator:

{{#Release notes comments.split("\n")}}<ul><li>{{.}}<ul><li>Notes</li></ul></li></ul>{{/}}

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