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Jira Automation - Add label copied from sprint name

Marine Redon_1681ml

In order to track issues added to the sprint after sprint start, I am trying to set up an automation as follows: Screenshot 2025-02-17 175617.png

{ 
"update": { 
"labels": [{ 
"add": {{issue.sprint.last.name.asJsonStringArray.replace(" ","-")}} 
}] 
} 
}

When the sprint is started, issues in that sprint are edited: they receive a label that is copied from the name of the current sprint.

Jira throws an error about the JSON. I have to use this because the 'Choose fields to set' does not allow me to add a new label on top of the existing ones.

On the screenshot above, it says 'The JSON is valid' but the audit log says 'Error while parsing additional fields. Not valid JSON.'

When I type:

{ 
"update": { 
"labels": [{ 
"add": {{issue.sprint.last.name.asJsonStringArray.replace(" ","-")}} 
}] 
} 
}

it throws the error "The label 'TEST Sprint 10' can't contain spaces. (labels))" so I suspect it's the attempt to remove spaces that doesn't work.

Any help to make this work would be greatly appreciated.

Accepted answers

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Marine Redon

Rather than using the JSON to repeatedly extract the value, I recommend using a variable to capture it one time (from the trigger value) and then using the Edit Issue and Labels field ... ADDREMOVE option to make the update.

For example:

trigger: sprint started
action: create variable
- name: varSprintNameAsLabel
- value: {{sprint.name.replace(" ", "-")}}
branch: on issues in the sprint
- action: edit issue
  - select the labels field
  - select the ... at the right of the field to use ADDREMOVE
  - enter the smart value in the Values to add
    - {{varSprintNameAsLabel}}

Kind regards,
Bill

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Derek Fields _RightStar_

You can add additional labels by using the smart value {{issue.labels}} and the label that you want to add. See the following. This works in my testing.

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Marine Redon

For example:

trigger: sprint started
action: create variable
- name: varSprintNameAsLabel
- value: {{sprint.name.replace(" ", "-")}}
branch: on issues in the sprint
- action: edit issue
  - select the labels field
  - select the ... at the right of the field to use ADDREMOVE
  - enter the smart value in the Values to add
    - {{varSprintNameAsLabel}}

Kind regards,
Bill

Marine Redon_1681ml

Hi @Bill Sheboy , thank you that worked perfectly. I wasn't sure how variables worked but that solved the issue.

For anyone else reading, it did not remove prior labels and it only added the current sprint as label, even if the issue had been in several sprints before.

Patricia Caballero Leal

Hi all,

This is exactly what I need to do but I am not sure if I am doing it on the right way since it is not working to me.

Can someone check what am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Patricia Caballero Leal

Hi all,

This is exactly what I need to do but I am not sure if I am doing it on the right way since it is not working to me.

Can someone check what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

Bill Sheboy

In your rule's Edit Issue action, the smart value is in the field for Labels to Remove. Please clear that and put it in the Labels to Add field. And then re-test.

If that does not help...please post images of:

the Create Variable action
the updated Edit Issue action
the audit log details showing the rule execution, with all of the expand areas on the right side > opened up

Patricia Caballero Leal

Thanks for your response @Bill Sheboy

It is not working with the changes you suggested. However, I am not sure if this is exactly what I need since we have 3 sprints: 1."Para refinar", 2."Para refinar" and the current sprint.

Only the current sprint has dates and I need to add labels only to the issues added to the current sprint after the sprint started.

I have tried many automations with conditions and also the solution you posted here, but nothing is working and I really don't know what else I can do.

Your help with this problem would be more than appreciated.

Bill Sheboy

Please provide the images I noted above as something is incorrect in the implementation of your rule and seeing the images will provide context:

an image of your current, complete rule
images of each trigger, action, branch, and condition in your rule
an image of the audit log details showing the rule execution, with all of the areas at the right side of the log with the arrows > expanded to show the issues involved

When the trigger is Sprint Started, the Created Variable I described could only contain the current (active) sprint's name.

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