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Jira Automation - "For each" loop with Multiple "if" statements

Garret Zhang

Hello,

I ran into an issue with For each loop with if condition. Any help is much appreciated it!

Goal:

I want to run a "for each" loop based off a custom field with multiple selections, and subsequently create tasks based on multiple "if" conditions.

Example:

There are three "impacted systems" (custom field) selected in the source (epic). For each impacted systems, if impacted system = NPE, then create a task in another project. If impacted system != NPE, then create a task in the current project.

Expectation:

Total 3 tasks created:

1 task created in a different project.
2 tasks created in current project.

Actual:

only 1 tasks created in another project.

Current Setup:

I also want to make sure this setup can scale up, because there will be additional impacted system selected that results in additional tasks created in other projects.

Thanks much!

Accepted answers

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Garret Zhang

The version you have will not work. At the first point where a condition is not met, processing for the current issue in the loop will stop and the loop will proceed with the next issue.

Currently Automation doesn't support using IF/ELSE inside a Branch, which is exactly what you need to do.

I advised another poster with the same type of question to set up multiple branches with each branch containing one condition:

For <your branching information>
  If Condition1
  Action that goes with Condition1
For <your branching information>
  If Condition2
  Action that goes with Condition2

I'm not sure if that matches your need for scalable, but it does work.

All comments

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Garret Zhang

The version you have will not work. At the first point where a condition is not met, processing for the current issue in the loop will stop and the loop will proceed with the next issue.

Currently Automation doesn't support using IF/ELSE inside a Branch, which is exactly what you need to do.

I advised another poster with the same type of question to set up multiple branches with each branch containing one condition:

For <your branching information>
  If Condition1
  Action that goes with Condition1
For <your branching information>
  If Condition2
  Action that goes with Condition2

I'm not sure if that matches your need for scalable, but it does work.

Garret Zhang

@Trudy P Claspill Thank you.

Is it possible to have multiple does not equal condition?

For impacted systems that does not equal A, B, C and D, then create tasks (for the other ones)

If this is possible then, I can do multiple for each loop to satisfy certain conditions while other for loop to cover all other conditions.

Example: System A, B, C, D, E, F

for A, create task in project A

for B, create task in project B

for C, create task in project C

for rest, create task in our project.

In reality, we may have 10 out of 50 impacted systems to create a task in another project, while the other 40 will be created in our project.

Trudy P Claspill

If the custom field is a selection list field then I advise you to use an Issue Fields condition rather than a Compare Two Values conditions. You can then use the "is not one of" to specify multiple values that you want to ensure are not present.