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Integration with Slack Workflows - Description with New Line Failing

Xiaolu Wen

I am using the "Create an issue" Jira Cloud step in a Slack Workflow. I'm trying to take variables from a filled out form and create the Jira Description.

I noticed that if I put all the variables in the same line, separated by spaces or words, the integration works as expected. But, if I try to separate out the variables with a newline or an empty line, then the integration fails, and Slackbot will give me the following message:

This workflow didn't finish. We couldn't complete the Create an issue step:
This happened because there's a problem with the information you provided.
You can reach out to the collaborators for help. You'll find them in the settings for this workflow.

I've attached a screenshot of what I am trying to do that is failing the workflow.

Screenshot 2023-07-25 at 9.32.24 AM.png

The follow screenshot shows that without the newline, it will work.

Screenshot 2023-07-25 at 9.33.04 AM.png

Is this a bug, or is there something that I am not doing properly with trying to use newlines?

System information: Apple M1 Macbook Pro, macOS Ventura 13.5, Slack Version 4.33.84

Accepted answers

Demetris_09x9ng

I'm having the exact same issue, so probably not something you're doing wrong!

I have also found that it doesn't matter where the newline character is, as even if it's in the input provided by a user in the form, the workflow will still fail with the error.

Something that might help in your case, as it seems that you only have newlines in the Description field (rather than the user answers themselves) is to use \n instead of Enter to separate the two answers, as I've found that passes through the workflow and results in a newline in the created ticket.

But ideally someone from Atlassian should look into this bug in their integration!

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Demetris_09x9ng

I'm having the exact same issue, so probably not something you're doing wrong!

I have also found that it doesn't matter where the newline character is, as even if it's in the input provided by a user in the form, the workflow will still fail with the error.

But ideally someone from Atlassian should look into this bug in their integration!

Xiaolu Wen

Oh man, that's extremely unfortunate. I did have some of my form fields be long answers where users can enter in new lines. I will work around this by changing the fields to short answer fields... which is extremely inconvenient for users entering in long text all on one line.

Thanks so much for the hint on `/n` !

I do hope that Atlassian can comment on this with an answer on roadmap for fixing the bug or some workaround such that we can make this integration much easier to use for both admins and users of the Slack+Jira workflow.

Alastair Wilkinson

Just as an FYI, the connector steps in the new Slack workflow builder are built by Slack, not any of the actual vendors like Atlassian. It is on Slack to fix the issues.

Nicolas Peralta_rtnv52

Same happen to me. I realized that special character (new lines, quotations, etc) are not allowed to use in summary or issue description. I have talked with Slack and they said that Atlassian is the owner and have to fix it.

Xiaolu Wen

Thanks for the engagement!

My team has submitted a ticket through our Slack support and received the response:

Unfortunately you have run into a known bug our team is aware of and actively working on.

I encourage everyone else who is seeing this thread that is experiencing this to submit a ticket through your Slack support channel as well!

Anastasia Gourina_lzdr7v

HI All,

I have also been facing the same issue! Thank you for the advice!

Just have a question regarding the Slack workflow. Does anyone knows if the person integrating with the Slack channel/workflow needs a Jira Software license for the information to go to Jira?

Is there any licensing limitation?

Thanks!

Andrés Velasco_l3fqzf

I am having the same problema with "quotes"

GC_a1f2ge

From my understanding, the default is that the workflow creator is the default ticket creator in Jira and their account is the one used thus bypassing the need for every person to have a Jira account

Not sure whether this helps as it might cause an issue to have all tickets 'raised' by the same person in Jira? Makes it a little harder to track where it originated from

We changed this so that the person triggering the creation in Slack was also then shown as the creator in Jira. This also created some governance as only people with ticket creation permissions in Jira for that project could trigger the action.

But yes, whatever your setting - there has to be an Atlassian account with ticket creation permissions attached to the workflow

Zachary Wentworth

This workflow step is pretty much unusable.

Zachary Wentworth

I was able to resolve this by avoiding Slack’s RTF-based fields and opting for paragraph fields for data collection.

Zachary Wentworth

The step still produces errors and is too picky about input.
We are no longer using this tool.

Anastasia Gourina_lzdr7v

Hmmm, interesting... How did you guys change the config?

"We changed this so that the person triggering the creation in Slack was also then shown as the creator in Jira."

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