Jira automation - how to overwrite part of field

Georgina Everett

I'm using an automation that adds the parent name and then a colon to the front of story summaries when a parent issue is added:

{{issue.parent.Summary}}: {{issue.summary}}

But this means that if someone changes the parent, then we end up with a story summary that has two parents at the front

New parent: Old parent: story summary

How do I create a rule that overwrites the original parent? 

[The current rule won't work if issue creation is the trigger, since you add parent info after issue creation.]

Benjamin_tmh9yg

Welcome @Georgina Everett ,

 

Haven't encounter a way to just replace or overwrite just portion of the text. Another way to approach it is to possibly create a hidden field that has a copy of the original summary when the issue was created. That way you can do something like this

 

{{issue.parent summary}} {{issue.originalsummary}}

 

There' a probably a good business reason why putting a parent summary is the child summary. I would suggest to seek alternatives other than updating the summary.  Usually, that should be left intact and only state what the ticket is about. There's other ways to see the parent through other Jira boards.