Auto increment a custom field on Jira cloud

Dheeraj Singh

Hi Experts,

I have created a text custom field and want that to auto incrment automatically after every jira story is created.

For e.g if the first jira story has fieldvalue as PD1, the next jira story automatically gets PD2

I am using Jira cloud

Jens Schumacher - Released_so

Hi @Dheeraj Singh 

Welcome to the community!

You can create increment and store a sequence number via Jira automation.

At a high level, you want to store a value with the key "sequence" (or whatever you want to call it) in the properties of the project. With each creation of a ticket, you can increment that value and store it again the issue. 

This is what your automation should look like:

 

Set project property

• Entity type: Project
• Property key: sequence (or whatever you want to call the property)
• Property value:

{{#increment}}{{project.properties.sequence}}{{/}}

The above is an automation math expression which increments the number in between the start "{{#increment}} and the closing tag {{/}} of the expression. 

Edit issue fields:

• Choose the field where you want to store the value.
• Access the property via: 

 {{issue.project.properties.sequence}}

Cheers,
Jens

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