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JQL to search for characters in summary

Pauline Hild

Hi everyone,

I want to create an automation that prevents a task from being created twice by mistake. For this I need a JQL that searches for 4 characters (numbers or letters) between two underscores in the summary (e.g. _0110_), since these are contained in the summary of each project. If there is already a project that contains exactly these four characters in its summary, the creation of the task should be prevented.
How must the JQL look like for this?

Best regards,

Pauline.

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Alex Koxaras -Relational-

Hi @Pauline Hild

Jira automation, if you are thinking of implementing your thought with that, it will not be of any use. Jira automation is executed as a post function and not as a validator.

Out of the box you can't search for this, meaning a set of substring located between two other characters (you could use smart values on Jira automation, but again this would not prevent your users for creating a subtask). You will need an app like JMWE, JSU, JWT. Do you have any of that?

Pauline Hild

Thank you very much for your answer.

Unfortunately I don't have any of the apps you mentioned. How could I make this work with one of the apps? And is there any other way to get at least a hint when creating already existing task?

Vicente Domínguez [Decadis AG]

Hello @Pauline Hild and thank you @Alex Koxaras -Relational-for mentioning us!

You could use a Jira expression validator to validate the summary of the newly created issues with an expression similar to the following one:

!issue?.summary.includes("_10011_" || "_10012_")

In this case, the validator will allow the transition only if any of the texts between brackets is not included in the summary of the current issue.

Unfortunately, we are still unable to retrieve the summaries of the projects, so the texts between brackets will need to be hard coded into the expression.

I am part of the Support Team for JWT. Please, do not hesitate to contact us if you have any question regarding JWT Cloud via our Support Service Desk.

Best regards,

Vicente

Pauline Hild

Hello @Alex Koxaras -Relational- ,

Thank you so much for responding to my question. If I understood it correctly, I would need to add the letters/numbers from all existing projects into the Jira expression validator to exclude that a project with the same characters is created twice, since matching is not possible automatically?

Beste regards,

Pauline

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