Query issues with attachment sorted by size is that possible??

[Bernardo San Juan]

Dear Answers community,

We need to archive a whole lot of attachments load. We are hitting storage limit and want to start solving this issue. We will archive some issues and projects but I would also want to have a good criteria to search for issue with a lot of load.

For that I used JQL: "attachments is not empty"

But I can not know what is the size of the attachment. Any suggestion on how to solve this case? I want to have a list of issues with attachments, this list should included attachment size.

Cheers

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

You will definitely need some code to enable this - something that can go into an issue, check the attachments and display the size. 

Francis is right in that the Script Runner could give you a scripted field that could display the total size of all attachments on an issue, and it's only a few lines of code.

But there's no Script Runner on Cloud, and the restrictions mean that you can't add similar add-ons either.

But, two other options

1. Write a Connect add-on that can fetch the attachment sizes
2. Do it externally - run your filter over REST and iterate through the results, pulling the attachment meta-data down over REST.

Both of those would use https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/#api/2/attachment-getAttachment

[Deleted user]

Hi Nic

Sorry for reviving old threads, but you always seem to be able to help me in here 

I could really use a script (for ScriptRunner), that can tell me the attachment size per Issue. I managed to find one that gives me number of attachments, but that doesnt really help me unfortunately. 

Hopefully you'll see this,

Best regards Nikolaj 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Tibor beat me to it with https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/44223581

[Bob Swift]

The following action from JIRA Command Line Interface (CLI) will give you a CSV file of issues and attachments with size:

--action runFromIssueList --jql "project = XXX" --common "--action getAttachmentList --issue @issue@ --file attachmentList.csv --append --outputFormat 2" --clearFileBeforeAppend

[Deleted user]

Hi Francis,

 
I am looking for exactly a script like that, but I can't get it to work. How would you write it? 

[Pablo Beltran]

SQL for JIRA is also an option as the ISSUEATTACHMENTS table supports FILESIZE 

[Bernardo San Juan]

Many thks to both. Ill go for that

[Bernardo San Juan]

Hi Francis,

No, did not consider that. I want to know if there is other approaches rather than recurring to scripts. However, thks for your quick reply, I may give it a try if no other option.

[francis]

Did you consider a scripted field (script runner) which is set with the total size of all attachments related to an issue ?