Automation - Advanced Branching over issue links

[Julia Foden]

I was hoping to use advanced branching to add one issue's links to the existing links of another issue. 

I have started testing with a manual trigger and simple logging. 

But I got this error

For my immediate needs I'll do what I need to do manually.

But has anyone got advanced branching to work for iterating over a list of issue links?

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Julia Foden 

The list values (links, comments, etc.) have attribute-based values, so you need to access the one you want.  Please try this for the branch:

{{issue.issueLinks.key}}

Best regards,
Bill

[Julia Foden]

Hi @Bill Sheboy 

I tried that but it logged nothing. In my original rule, the branch did log the issue key of the first link but then hit the error.

[Bill Sheboy]

Thanks for that information, Julia.

I updated my post as when I tried this, it does appear objects are available in advanced branching, and there is something special about links: the branch works with just the key but I also see nothing logged.

I'm gonna try this and see if I can get it to work as I expected it is an inward/outward link issue...

Yup, these worked 

{{issue.issuelinks.inwardIssue.key}}

{{issue.issuelinks.outwardIssue.key}}

__Bill

[Bill Sheboy]

And...If you need to process these as a batch, consider merging the inward and outward links using list and text functions, and a created variable...Then the created variable can be split into a list to drive the Advanced Branch source.

[Julia Foden]

Thank you Bill.