Where to find the field variable name

ali_nujnjq

Hi everyone,

I am looking for setting up some Automation for issue creation.
The Automation will create a new child JIRA request (not a sub-task) when a parent JIRA request was created, and in the Child request, I am looking to fill some fields based on the corresponding fields in the Parent request,
Such as Summary, which is listed in the automation as {{issue.summary}},

However, something that doesn't listed in the list, where I can find their name? such as a custom file, Personal Email Address, I tried {{issue.personalemailaddress}} which doesn't work.

Just would like to see where I can find all the variable names, so that we can do more with the Automation.

Thanks a lot,

Kalyan Sattaluri_iinm1n

Hello @ali 

Basically there are 2 types of fields.

There are out of the box fields and there are custom fields which your Jira admin has provisioned for your project.

You can reference a field by using exactly how the field is called on the screen. 

So if field is called "Personal Email Address", then to reference it, you use {{issue.Personal Email Address}}

Notice that I included the spaces. If you remove spaces, the smart value will not resolve. So you have to be particular in specifying the name exactly how you see it on the screen.

This should get you most of the way. But some times, for custom fields, referencing screen name will not work, especially when doing advanced edits or if there are multiple fields with same name, just couple of examples.. then you need to reference them by their customfield names. But this depends on use case and fields in question.

To know more about smart values and custom fields, Please read through below article:

https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/find-the-smart-value-for-a-field/

Hope it helps.