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Need to verify a field how many time it got updated

mohanbabu.s

Hi Team,

We are using Jira cloud, we have a field called as Acceptance criteria associated to story and bugs, We need a report, how many times this field values have been updated. Please help us with a free add-on or any other options available for this activity.

Regards,

Mohan S

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Tomislav Tobijas

Hi @mohanbabu.s ,

You could use 'counter'/number field to achieve this + automation rule that updates the number field value each time 'Acceptance criteria' value is changed.

So, what you can do is to set this counter number field to some value (e.g. '0') and then use smart values and math expressions to change the counter value. In the example below, a custom field with ID 10061 is actually this 'counter' number field named "Counter 'Acceptance criteria'".

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Tom

Rudy Holtkamp

Hi @mohanbabu.s ,

You can also use the changelog of an issue to look the number of changes of a certain field.

With an automation rule you can 'easily' get it.

Automation rule:

Trigger: choose one of your liking (start with manual, so you can test the rule)

Action: Send web request

Web request URL: {{baseurl}}/rest/api/3/issue/{{issue}}/changelog
HTTP method: GET
Web request body: Empty
Delay execution of subsequent rule actions: ✅
Headers:
- Content-Type > application/json
- Authorization > Basic <your token>

Action: Create variable

Variable name: numberOfUpdates

Smart value:

{{#=}}
  {{#webResponse.body.values}}
    {{#items}}
      {{#if(equals(field,"Acceptance criteria"))}}1{{/}}{{#if(not(equals(field,"Acceptance criteria")))}}0{{/}}
      {{^last}}+{{/}}
    {{/}}
    {{^last}}+{{/}}
  {{/}}
{{/}}

Action: Comment on issue
Number of updates of the field Acceptance criteria: {{numberOfUpdates}}

The above rule will create a comment in your issue.
You can also create a new field and use {{numberOfUpdates}} as the value.

Good luck,

Rudy

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Rudy Holtkamp

I believe that endpoint can only return a maximum of 100 changes:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issues/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-changelog-get

And so if the issue has been changed more than 100 times and the updates of the field were before those 100 changes, pagination would be required to get an accurate count...which could be challenging to accomplish with a rule.

Kind regards,
Bill

Rudy Holtkamp

@Bill Sheboy That could become an issue, true. Maybe add ?maxResults=1000 to the endpoint?

Bill Sheboy

The limit for that one is maxResults=100, after which the call returns the nextPage link to follow for more results.

mohanbabu.s

Hi All thankyou for your swift support, I will check this scenario and update you if there is an issue.

Regards,

Mohan S

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