Bill Sheboy Expert

Hi @Jaqueline Mendes -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community! Adding to Trudy's answer...Both of those suggestions in the Code Barrel backlog are closed as "won't do", and here is related one you can watch/vote for...it is still marked as open: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JIRAAUTOSERVER-68 Kind regards, Bill

Hi @Daniel D'Alessandro When you have difficulty finding the exact smart values for your fields, this how-to article can help. Essentially you use a browser tab to look at an example issue and see all fields. https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/find-the-smart-value-for-a-field/ Once you find the field's…

Hi @Sarah Jackson Does your fixVersion have a value in releaseDate at the time the rule runs? Does your fixVersion field have one or multiple values? fixVersion is a list field and if you have multiple you may need to select the one you want for the source of releaseDate, such as: {{issue.fixVersions.releaseDate.max}} Kind…

I am glad to learn that worked. Often the trick in getting an automation rule to work is using the correct smart values (name, capitalization, spacing, etc.) This how-to article may help find all of the available smart values, and their respective custom IDs, for an issue:…

Here is one hypothesis: fields for addons which dynamically generate values cannot be used in smart value expressions other than as a simple read due to the order of operations. How to test that: write {{issue.Evaluation of Exposures}} to the audit log and see if it has a value.

First, here is the documentation on using JSON for the edits and I encourage you to review it as it can help identify problems and provides how-to ideas: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/advanced-field-editing-using-json/ For updating Story point estimate in the parent for the sum of the children, please…

Yup, that will work with the syntax I provided to parse by smart-link. I just tried it with and without bullets to confirm it identifies the keys and adds the links.

You seem to be using a custom field named "estimated points", and so when you copy/paste that smart value expression into the edit value, it will appear below the field...then you may select it and it will be used. If instead you want to update the parent issue's actual "Story point estimate" field, that can only be done…

Thanks, Rick. The next thing to check is if the field types are numeric, as Stefan notes. If not, try converting each one with asNumber with a default of zero, such as: {{issue.Evaluation of Exposures.asNumber|0}}

Hi @Rick Crow I wonder if it is because you have the reserved character / in the names of the custom fields. Please try to replace the names for those fields with the custom field ID values instead to see if that works. You may find those IDs from the admin functions or you can quickly just call the REST API with an…

Hey, Owen. I tested and that solution from the other post does not work for me with that regular expression. However I have re-confirmed what I first suggested works, with 1-to-many actual links from the description field: {{issue.description.split("smart-link]").match(".*browse\/(.*)").substringBefore("|")}} Next let's…

Nope... If JQL was a SQL you would be correct, but it cannot perform nested queries out of the box and so you cannot JOIN together the results of different queries. The closest you get is AND or OR of the different result sets. filter=12345 AND filter=67890 Again if you need this functionality often, the marketplace is the…

JQL does exactly what we ask (usually), and without the extra Created condition, your query is essentially saying "I do not care when these were created...just show issues NOT in this status on this day...", which would be everything else. If you still believe this to be a defect, please work with your site admin to submit…

Well done!

I am glad to learn you found your field. When the automation rule's issue edit shows your field in the drop-downs, you can edit/update it that way. When it is not shown, you need to use the advanced edit with JSON, such as: { "fields": { "customfield_11320": "the value I want to set" } } So if a parent issue has this data,…

Which link do you mean? I'm looking at a free site now and the paths to create automation rules are: * From the board, select the lightning bolt icon at the right side of the page to see options, or... * From the left-side of a project page's expanding options, select project settings and automation.

I am glad to learn that worked for you! Regarding references, these are spread around a bit and always improving. Here are some good places that I use a lot: * Start with issue field documentation: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-issues/ * For advanced edit with…

For your smart value expression in the edit, it seems you changed the name. Perhaps try the exact built-in field name to see if that works. {{issue.subtasks.Story point estimate.sum|0}} I wondered about that as your trigger also shows "Story point estimate" and not the one you typed in as "Story point estimado".

Hi @Jenna Price In my opinion, context is key on techniques...What am I trying to do (e.g. present, train, facilitate, coach, mentor, etc.) and what am I trying to accomplish (e.g. ideate, observe, persuade, plan, problem solve, etc.) I can recommend lots of sources and choosing what to pull in from the "toolbox" is a case…

Hi @Shan (SHPK) Adding onto Jack's answer: * No, you cannot trigger an automation rule based on a change to a project field; only create project triggers (I believe...) * And, project category is accessible in a rule as {{project.projectCategory}} for all the object or just the fields you want, such…

Hi, Phil. Lots of questions and hopefully some answers to help... First thing: when you are a site or org admin, please look for the gear icon at the top right of the view, select Jira Settings, System, and then Search Jira Admin. When you enter some key words (e.g. Workflow, Status) it will take you to the correct place…

Hi @Martin When you note "help with JSON automation", what do you mean? How are you making the update? If you used an automation for Jira rule, the edit action should allow you to set the updated summary with: {{triggerIssue.key}} {{triggerIssue.summary}} If I am misunderstanding your request, would you please post an…

Hi @Ijeoma Fredrick One facilitation technique that can help with that symptom is 1-2-4-All, where after individual brainstorming, transition to pairs, allowing people to share ideas with a single person and improve them...perhaps even selecting a reduced set to share out. For larger groups, the pairs can merge to quads…

Hi @Shan (SHPK) What do you mean by "shares setting with an existing project"? Knowing that may help the community to offer suggestions. Kind regards, Bill

Hi @Pedro Henrique Barreto Carvalho Ignoring for a moment the practice of using story points with subtasks rather than just with stories... Your estimated points field edit is on the Parent issue, but you are trying to: * reference the trigger issue, which is a subtask, and * using an invalid mathematical structure by…

Hi @Jay Greenberg -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community! According to the advanced JQL documentation, Last Viewed is relative to the value provided in a query. When you do not specify a value it is relative to midnight on the current date for your time…

Hi @Jonathan Rauscher You cannot do that with out-of-the-box JQL, as it cannot perform such nested queries or joins. For possible work-arounds: * If you need this search just once, try running the query in steps: find the parents matching your summary text, grab their keys, and then find their children with parent IN…

Hi @Gordon Jones What do you mean by "team"? Unfortunately Jira has several things named "team". For example, where do you create teams and manage their information in Jira. Next, when setting the values of an issue's fields, it does not automagically assume the properties of its parent. For example, some users may want…

Hi @Albert Rodríguez Mañé -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community! If I understand your question, I believe the answer is "no": all of the image/file content added to the description, comments, and other such text fields are added as attachments and then referenced by those fields. If you do not want something attached to an…

Catching up with your posts...If the "print view" meets your needs please try that. For the use case you described, it may be enough just to create a test project in your site to experiment; probably no need for another workflow unless you wanted to change that also. If you and your admin want to isolate the testing, you…