Hi Community, I have a requirement in Jira Cloud where I need a custom field (let’s call it Document Number) to automatically increment every time a new issue is created. For example: * When the first ticket is created → Document Number = 6000 * Next ticket → Document Number = 6001 * Next ticket → Document Number = 6002 …and so on. Is there any way that can I achieve this? Note: We are using jira cloud

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Auto incremental custom field based on ticket creation

Prathap DL_66helr

Hi Community,

I have a requirement in Jira Cloud where I need a custom field (let’s call it Document Number) to automatically increment every time a new issue is created.

For example:

When the first ticket is created → Document Number = 6000
Next ticket → Document Number = 6001
Next ticket → Document Number = 6002
…and so on.

Is there any way that can I achieve this?

Note: We are using jira cloud

Accepted answers

Pedro Olmo_7tm5vp

Hello @Prathap DL ,

To do this, you'll need to use an rule automation to retain the created issue.key every time a new ticket is opened. Once you have this data, you can make a web request to get the ticket issue.key - 1 (previous ticket). With that REST API call, you obtain the custom field you want to increment by 1 from the webresponse.body. The last part is an action in the automation to edit that field in the created(trigger) ticket.

regards

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Mario GELES

Hi @Prathap DL

I don't know if it could help you but you can use the smartvalue increment in an automation to add +1 to a value.

Like this :

{{#increment}}4{{/}}

-> add 1 to 4 so in your customfield you could see 5

You can also reference a numeric field so it would be :

Pedro Olmo_7tm5vp

Hello @Prathap DL ,

regards

Prathap DL_66helr

hi @Pedro Olmo

Thanks for the answer.

As I'm new to this Jira automation, could you please provide the working automation rule?

Pedro Olmo_7tm5vp

Hello @Prathap DL ,

I will prepare it for you but keep in mind that you will need to have an access token from a user via REST API. You will also need the custom field number.

Manage API tokens for your Atlassian account | Atlassian Support

Regards

Pedro Olmo_7tm5vp

Hello @Prathap DL ,

I’ve just created the automation and I’ll be explaining it to you step by step. First of all, I want to mention that I like working with variables in automations, so I’ll be showing you the variables I created and what each of them does.

Trigger: When Work item created.
Condition: If project = your project (In my example project is Proyecto Formacion)
Create variable {{Key}} = {{issue.key.split("-").last}} This variable stores the number of the newly created ticket.
Create variable {{project}} = {{issue.key.split("-").first}}
With this variable, I capture the project key.
Create variable {{previouskey}} = {{#=}}{{Key}} - 1{{/}} Here, I want to subtract one from the current ticket number in order to get the previous ticket number, then go to that ticket and look up the value of the Document number
Send web request: https://yoursite.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/{{project}}-{{previouskey}} Here I make a REST API call using the previous ticket number (the one created before) to obtain the value of the Document number. Remember API Token with your user:Manage API tokens for your Atlassian account | Atlassian Support
Create variable {{DocumentNumber}} = {{#=}}{{webResponse.body.fields.customfield_11320}} + 1{{/}} This variable retrieves the value returned by the REST API call from the field customfield_11320, which in my setup corresponds to my custom field. In your case, it will be the Document Number field. I increase this value by one so that it can be added to the newly created ticket.
Edit workitem field with {{DocumentNumber}} Variable.

Here I’m sharing an overview of the entire automation I explained above. I hope the explanation works well for you. Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards

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