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Copy URL from Weblink field to Comment and/or Label fields (make weblink searchable)

Nicholas Cooprider

I have a bunch of tickets with Weblinks in the Weblink Field and I need to copy these links to either a Comment and/or the Label field of the tickets where they appear in order to make them text searchable via JQL.

I have access to Scriptrunner which I see can copy from custom fields to other fields, but I can't see a way for it to copy from the Weblink field to Comments or Labels since these are not custom.

Also, the Weblinks in question are to tickets in another JIRA instance, so if putting these in Labels, it would be ideal if we could truncate the URL to just the ticket Key (e.g. truncate from https://mycompany.atlassian.net/browse/FAKE-5114 to just FAKE-5114 in the Labels field).

The ultimate goal is to make the Weblink searchable, so I am also open to other suggestions.

Thank you in advance for any assistance.

Accepted answers

Kristian Walker

Hi Nicholas,

I can confirm it is possible to copy the value from a field to the comments field using ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud.

You would need to write a script which, first of all gets the issue and extracts the value from the WebLinks field to a variable.

You would then be able to set this in the comments field of the issue using the Add Comment Rest API, and I can confirm we have an example of using this API here to set a comment that you can use as a reference.

Alternatively, you can set a label field with the value from the WebLinks field by calling the Edit Issue API and passing in the array of labels to set. We have an example of setting the label field here that you can use for reference.

If you need to truncate the URLs to get the issue key, then you can do this in Groovy, and the example code here on line shows how to do this.

Finally, if you need to copy values for multiple issues, then you can do this by calling the Search for issues API and running the code to update each issue returned by the JQL search. We have an example of doing this here.

I hope this information helps.

Regards,

Kristian

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Kristian Walker

Hi Nicholas,

I can confirm it is possible to copy the value from a field to the comments field using ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud.

You would need to write a script which, first of all gets the issue and extracts the value from the WebLinks field to a variable.

If you need to truncate the URLs to get the issue key, then you can do this in Groovy, and the example code here on line shows how to do this.

I hope this information helps.

Regards,

Kristian

Nicholas Cooprider

Thanks for the response.

Unfortunately where I am getting hung up is figuring out the FieldID for Web Links, which as far as I can tell is not a custom field. I used the "Get Issue Fields" script and input a valid issue ID and while I get results returned, I can't find anything for the Web Link field specifically.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

The exact script I used which returned results, but not for the field I am looking for is:

def issueKey = 'ST-5055'

def result = get('/rest/api/2/issue/' + issueKey)
.header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
.asObject(Map)
if (result.status == 200){
return result.body.fields
} else {
return "Failed to find issue: Status: ${result.status} ${result.body}"
}

Edit: I also looked through the Custom Fields in JIRA just in case and didn't see it there either.

Kristian Walker

Hi Nicholas,

Can you please share a screenshot of the weblinks field on an issue in your instance so we can see this?

Also, can you please confirm if the project type you are using is a team-managed project or a company-managed project?

Regards,

Kristian

Nicholas Cooprider

Screenshot below.

It's a company managed project.

Web Links.JPG

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