Automation that extracts text from comment

[Toby Te Rupe]

I would like to check in a comment the following

duplicate of ABC-123

would like to check I’d duplicate text in comment (case in sensitive) if it does extract the   Numbers after ABC- which would be 123 

I am the. Going to close this ticket and link it to the one mentioned

thank you.

[Toby Te Rupe · Accepted solution]

Thank you I have figured this out and will publish here.

[Pablo Vergara]

Hi @Toby Te Rupe 

I've been looking into your use case. Initially, I don't see a way to accomplish the outcome other than using a workflow automation tool.

While Jira provides its automation engine (Automation for Jira), besides other prominent actors (e.g., JMWE, Power Scripts, etc.) in that space, you can find it on the Atlassian Marketplace.

Unfortunately, as you can see in the attached picture below, the challenge lies in capturing the issue key from the comment. For some reason, Jira is not providing the option to use smart values (https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/smart-values-in-jira-automation/) as an option to extract the issue from the comment and use it as a variable to link the issue to.

This is weird, as they state smart values can be used when building this automation rule. You can raise a ticket with Atlassian support and see what the reason behind it could be.

"You can link to the issue that triggered this rule, previously created issue, a smart-value or simply an issue key."

- Pablo Vergara / ServiceRocket SSE

[Toby Te Rupe]

Thank you Pablo.

I should have mentioned that I wanted to perform this in JIRA automation. Would like a regex to extract the the Key and also to check if duplicate is in the phrase.

It is the regex I am struggling with,

[Pablo Vergara]

No worries @Toby Te Rupe 

You could then use a regex like: \b[A-Z]{3,}-\d{3,}\b

(feel free to adapt it if needed so it can be used on the Automation for Jira rule builder)

Let me know how it goes!

- Pablo

[Toby Te Rupe]

Thank you, just now need someway of extracting the Key and passing it to this JQL