How to update asset attribute from all assets within a list

Marius Fassbender

Hi,

from an application I receive a list, either as csv file or just a list to copy to your clipboard. For all assets within that list, I want to edit an user attribute from those assets to the reporter. 

To process that csv list with automation, you need to send a Web Request and handle the attribute update via API.

I want to do it only within automation, so I have a request type with only a custom field which is a multi line text field. So from my application, I copy the list which looks for example like:

"ITAM-1
ITAM-2
ITAM-3"

My automation rule looks like this

 

So from my understanding, this advanced branching should handle every line within the list seperately and for each assetKey in the list, lookup that object and edit my attribute to the issues reporter.

The audit log looks like this

Does anyone has a tip for me how to handle this correctly?

Thanks in advance

 

 

Jehan Bhathena

Hi @Marius Fassbender 

2 things to note (as per the documentation): https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-automation-actions/#Edit-object

1. To use the Edit Object action, you need to use the AQL branching.

2. It won't work with the Lookup objects action

You can try the below setup to see if it works:

• Keep this part of the automation intact : Automation 1
  
• Create a new automation that is triggered by a Incoming Webhook: Automation 2
• Go back to the Automation 1, and add a action in the "for each" called "Send-web-request", pass the "AssetKey" and "Issue Key" as parameters to this webrequest.
• Coming back to the Automation 2, reference the issue key and AssetKey from the webhookdata, and pass it in the AQL loop. Once this is done, add the same edit object action and see if it makes the feature available.

Hope this helps.