Syncing Polaris custom fields with Software Project

[Hannah Garvin]

Scenario:

I have created custom fields in a Polaris Project e.g. High time estimate and want to send this value to the 'Original Estimate' field in a Software Project when I create a delivery ticket.

I have reviewed the below-linked article, but as I am no development engineer, I don't understand the examples and what triggers are being used to set up automation.

https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/advanced-field-editing-using-json/

I have successfully achieved a similar automation for the Polaris Overview field being transferred to the Jira Software Project Descriptions field.  The key thing here is these fields are standard/preset in their respective project boards, whereas the fields I now want to be automated from Polaris are custom fields to populate preset Software fields (e.g. Story Points and Original Estimate)

How do I use custom code to do this - how do I understand the examples given in the article link to write my own automation when I am no engineer?  Please make this user-friendly as I have had an engineer look at your coding examples and they can't even work out what is triggering what and delivery what.

[Tanguy Crusson · Accepted solution]

Hi Holly, the only way to do this today is using the API to create insights (it's not enough to add issue links). There's a reference application for this API here: https://github.com/Atlassian-integrations/polaris-forge-ref-app/tree/master/push-example

We are planning to have an insights importer but it's not available yet. 

[Holly Holbrook]

@Tanguy Crusson Cool, can I use this same thing if they're currently linked under the "Delivery" tab

[Tanguy Crusson]

to link in the delivery tab you actually just need to use issue links :) and then the linked epics will automatically show in the delivery tab

[Holly Holbrook]

@Tanguy Crusson This Repo is giving me a 404.. does this mean that it's now easier to do it through the UI? https://github.com/Atlassian-integrations/polaris-forge-ref-app/tree/master/push-example