Automation - how to check issue comments?

Question

Hi community!

In Jira smart values there is an example to get author and date of comments

{{#issue.comments}} Comment by: {{author.displayName}} at: {{created}} {{body}} {{/}}

is there any way to mark issue in automation rule with manual start, if there is comment by specific user added in specific dates?

Tony Langlet · Answer

Hello @Chasovskikh Kirill I haven't tried this out but it could potentially work. It's a combination of itarating through a list and doing an if check on author,displayname and created date. {{#issue.comments}} {{if(and((equals(issue.author.displayName, ""),(equals(issue.created,""))))}} Comment by: {{issue.author.displayName}} at: {{issue.created}} {{issue.body}} {{/}} {{/}} https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-lists/ https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-conditional-logic/

Mark Segall · Answer

I don't think you'll be able to do this in that way.  You probably want to do something like this:

Create a custom date field with a name like "Last Comment Date"

Then set up an automation rule to populate it whenever you make a comment.  Something like this:

* TRIGGER: Issue Commented
* CONDITION (Advanced):* {{comment.author.displayName}}
Equals
Your Author

* ACTION: Edit Issue (Last Comment Date)* {{now}}

From here, you can set up a filter/subscription to see all issues with comments for the past week:

"Last Comment Date" >= -7d

Chasovskikh Kirill · Answer

Hi @Mark Segall !

Thank you for reply.

I mean - I need to create a rule, that have manual start.

For example at friday I need to mark all issues, which i have commented for previous week