Auto-populate label based on content in description

Question

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone has any tips on how you can auto-populate the field label with value for example "X" or "Y" depending on the content in the description?

Example: Label "X" should be populated if the description of the story is about Sweden and Finland and the label "Y" should be populated if the description of the story is about Norway or Denmark?

Is there any automation in Jira for this or any plug-in that could have this functionality?

/Moa

Pablo V. · Answer

Hi @Moa Delshammar

I'm just adding to @Jack Brickey and @Bill Sheboy responses (great notes). An example of an automation rule that could be used for your scenario is attached below.

- Pablo

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @Moa Delshammar -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Adding the Jack's answer...

To get you started on creating your rule, please refer to these documentation and example sources:

* https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/guides/automation/overview#what-is-automation
* https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/automation-template-library#/rule-list?systemLabelId=all&page=1&pageSize=20&sortKey=name&sortOrder=ASC
* https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-issues/

Kind regards,
Bill

Jack Brickey · Answer

Yes you can achieve using Automation. There are a number of posts in the community similar to your request. I encourage you to use the search bar to find examples. Depending on your specific situation and requirements I suspect you will incorporate an If/Else block that would check to see if the description is approximately "XXX" then add label "XXX" else if description approximately "yyy" Then add a label "YYY".

if you are not having any luck, please share more details or better yet an image of your attempted automation rule so that I can assist more completely.