Jira Automation create issues based on two multi pickers

Bent Möller

Hey, I try to use Jira for documenting Permissions while using two multi pickers (one for users, one for the permissions).

This is what I want:

A User creates an Issue, inside the Issue 3 Permissions are request for 2 Users.

So you have: User 1, User 2, Permission 1, Permission 2, Permission 3

Now for reasons each documentation issue may only contain a single User and a single Permission. So running the Automation on this example should result in 6 issues:

• User 1 Permission 1
• User 1 Permission 2
• User 1 Permission 3
• User 2 Permission 1
• User 2 Permission 2
• User 2 Permission 3

At the moment I cant find a solution for this. Only workaround I found for now is restricting the User field to a single picker and then only referencing the Permissions multi picker. This, however, is very inconvient when a new permission is introduced that requires the initial documentation of dozens of Users.

Another way would be building this functionality directly into the Workflow via Scriptrunner which might work, but is inconvinient as well.

Bent Möller

I probably found the solution.

It is actually possible to put a branch inside a branch. To do this, you have to Configure your first branch. Then add a Component -> select branch -> DO NOT MAKE FURTHER CHANGES -> drag&drop the unconfigured branch into your configured branch -> configure the second branch.

Following my example, this automation will now create 6 issues each with the respective user and permission name in the summary using the {{Permission}} and {{User}} variables I created with the branch.