How can I pass a variable created in jira automation inside another smart value field?

Question

{{#webResponse.body.virtualVersions}}
{{#if(equals(id, versionID))}}
{{customFields.69a18668c0678ghr67iygh}}
{{/}}
{{/webResponse.body.virtualVersions}}

here versionID is my variable created. I want to pass this dynamically. But it's not rendering the variable value. The rule runs successfully but fails to fetch the value needed.

Joseph Chung Yin · Answer

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Welcome to the community.   input and suggestions are right on the point, I totally agreed with him.

The key thing that you need to ensure where your variables are defined because some variables will not be available outside the section of your automation rule setup.

Looking forward to your findings.

Best, Joseph Chung Yin

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @Ramya R

Short answer: that is not possible, and a workaround is needed.

For a long-format iterator in automation rules, such as {{#someList}} do something {{/}} only data from the iterator scope, and lower, is accessible.  No outside data such as a created variable can be seen inside the iteration.  This is a long-standing limitation of such iterators, and I recall there are several suggestions and defects for the symptom in JAC.

There are two possible workarounds for your scenario, depending upon if your virtualVersion's ID values are unique in the web response: dynamic list searching, or a dynamic lookup table.

#1) Dynamic List searching methods (This works for unique or non-unique ID values.)

* The approach is to capture just the ID and your desired data from the web response as delimited text in a created variable.  Then, build a dynamic regular expression to search the text and find the results with the match() function, and then extract the final data with text functions.
* I wrote an article to explain it this method: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Automation-articles/Automation-concepts-Dynamic-searches-within-a-list/ba-p/2834235

#2) Dynamic Lookup Table (This only works for unique ID values.)

* Using the web response, parse the data to save the ID and your custom field in a Dynamic Lookup Table and then use your created variable to lookup the desired value.
* There is an example in the help documentation for this same scenario with a web response, so search for the text "Example using Send Web Request" on the page.

Please try one of those approaches and then let me know what happens.  Thanks!

Kind regards,
Bill