Edit group attribute of Assets object using Jira Automation

[Nathan Allen]

I'm working on managing group membership based on some specific criteria of objects in Assets and at the end of the automation, I want to update the list of groups the object is a members of.

I've got a "Group" attribute on my object with no maximum value and in my automation I've got it looking up a group of objects, sending an API request to update group membership, and then editing the object at the end with the new group membership.



Most of that works, but I keep getting the error "No issues were found, stopping the rule"


I've tried every option I can think of for the name of the group (group ID, putting it in a smart value, just the string), but I get the same result.

If I manually add the group to a user and then log the contents of the field, it's just the group name as a string.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Nathan Allen · Accepted solution]

In case someone finds this looking for an answer, I couldn't figure out how to do it with just Jira Automation actions. Also, based on the way the API works, I think it would overwrite any existing values anyway, instead of appending them.

I ended up replacing the "Edit Object" action with a couple If's to check if the field is already empty or not, and then a web request to edit the attribute via the API.

Screenshots of both below.