Custom field with serial number

Question

I would like to know how to create a custom field, which will generate a number every time an issue is created. I know that JIRA already does that automatically, but the problem is that I can't chose where it starts from, and it keeps on creating numbers for subtasks, which I don't want.

Any ideas?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

It's actually quite hard - your code will need to search for the last created issue, grab the number and then add to that.

I don't think you can add code like that to Cloud.

Filipe Teixeira · Answer

That actually sounds great.

I've managed to find the function to add 1 value to the number I want, but I still can't find how to get the number from the previous issue. Any ideas on how to do this?

Thank you

Aleks Yenin (Polontech) · Answer

Hi,
You may create youre own custom field, then get custom field value and increment it using postfunction, when the new one issue was created.