Iterate over a list of substrings and find the lowest

[Chris Smith]

Hi there!

    I have a field in my JIRA issues which is basically a set of comma separated numbers (with max 999). Im looking to find a way to iterate through them using the various automation functions and select the lowest of them. I cant seem to grasp how to use the # operator and the list functions to do this.  So effectively I want to do the equivalent of this pseudocode

int lowest = 1000

for (int i =0 i< list.length(); i++) {

    if (list.get(i) < lowest {

           lowest=list.get(i)

    }

}

I'd really appreciate any tips on how to attack this problem

Thanks in advance!

Chris

[Riley Venable _Atlas Bench_ · Accepted solution]

You can use the MIN() function in JQL to find the lowest number in a list. For example, if you have a field called "numbers" with a list of comma-separated numbers, you can use the following query to find the lowest number: MIN(numbers) Keep in mind that Jira rounds decimals to the nearest 1000th place, and people can enter large numbers using scientific notation.

[Gareth Cantrell · Accepted solution]

Hi @Chris Smith 

This is can be done quite simply with some of the smart value functions available in Jira automation.

In your case, the following smart functions will achieve your outcome:

{{description.split(",").min}}

 I used the description field, so just replace that with your actual field.

[Chris Smith]

Wow. That was easy - thanks for answering Gareth. I feel a bit stupid now :-) Do see a way to extend this to reordering the whole list?

[Gareth Cantrell]

Unfortunately, there is currently no option to sort lists. 

I believe there are some feature requests for this which you could vote for.

You can search through these projects on JAC, depending on which platform you're on: https://jira.atlassian.com/projects?selectedCategory=all&selectedProjectType=all&contains=automation&sortColumn=name&sortOrder=ascending&s=view_projects