Automation - Remove a component

[Gabriel Chaves]

Hello guys, I would like to know how to remove a component from the Jira automation, I tried the documentation, but it was not clear for me. I know that would be from a JSON, but didnt work for me.

The code would be, every time a trigger happens, remove the component 'abc'.

[Gabriel Chaves · Accepted solution]

Thank you @Kian Stack Mumo Systems , I looked through 18 pages, and didn't see this one.

The second solution was missing some information (The variable {{compsCsv}} converts {{comps}} variable with CSV delimited by string quotation (")), but I got the necessary knowledge to do the automation.

I thought there was something simpler, similar to what is presented in the documentation:

"components": { "required": false, "schema": { "type": "array", "items": "component", "system": "components" }, "name": "Component/s", "hasDefaultValue": false, "operations": [ "add", "set", "remove" ]

Anyway, it works. Thank you very much!!

My solution:

Strutucture:

Solution:

1. Create a variable (issueComponents) to receive all the components
   
   {{#issue.components}}{ 'name': '{{name}}'} , {{/}}
   
   output:
   
   { 'name': 'Component 1'} , { 'name': 'Component to be removed'} , { 'name': 'Component N'} ,
   
   
2. Create a variable (updatedIssueComponents) to remove a specific component and format the string (remove the last comma, and replace the quotes) to be used in a advanced JSON editing
   
   {{issueComponents.remove("{ 'name': 'Component to be removed'} ,").substringBeforeLast(",").replace("'","\"")}}
   
   output:
   
   { "name": "Component 1"} , { "name": "Component N"}
   
3. Edit the issue with a JSON input
   
   

   {

   "fields": { "components" : [ {{updatedIssueComponents}} ] }

   }

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems]

I'm glad you got it working!

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems]

@Gabriel Chaves, 

You should check out this page - it looks like @Bill Sheboy answered a very similar question in some great level of detail, so full credit to him for that!

If you do run into trouble with the implementation, I'd be happy to help troubleshoot your issues.

Thanks,

Kian

[Benoit]

here is the most easy way to do it:

In JSON format in a modify issue use this syntax:
{
"update": {
"components": [{
"remove": {"name": "Component_Name_To_Remove"}
}]
}
}