How to link form data to a custom field

[Peter Gruden]

I created a form using Jira Forms. In that form there is a filed that wasn't linked to any existing Jira fields, because the people using it didn't need to report on information in that field. Now they want to report on the information. So I created a custom field and linked it to the field in the form. 

The problem is that only newly filled tickets using the form have this data. How could I go about applying this to older filled tickets?

[Aditya Verma]

I would also be interested to know how to link existing data from form fields to Jira fields.

@Peter Grudenit seems to be a good use case to be raised with Atlassian.

Thanks,

Aditya

[John Funk]

Hi Peter,

I am not aware of a way to do that, except manually. Out of curiosity, what type of field is it? 

[Peter Gruden]

Hi John,

It's a date picker field.

[John Funk]

You might take a look at this post and see if it can help you. I am able to use code that is references in my automation to pull in form data. 

• Date Fields: {{issue.properties."proforma.forms.i1".state.answers.AAA.date}}

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management/How-to-access-the-form-data-in-Jira-Automations/qaq-p/2050277

[Peter Gruden]

Thank you for the suggestion I'll give a look and try to test it out.