Can text be automatically inserted in a text field, in an automation or transition post action?

[Phil Bustin]

Without using ScriptRunner or other app, I would like to be able to automatically insert text, including a couple of smart values, at the beginning of paragraph Field A, as follows:

*** Begin Additional Task to {{issue.[Custom Field].id}} {{now}} ***

[Paste PVCS modules from Show History > Version Label here.]

*** End Additional Task to {{issue.[Custom Field].id}} {{now}} ***

[blank line]

Perhaps the 3 lines above can be Field B, and I can concatenate Field B and Field A to Field C, and copy Field C to Field A?

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @Andrew Whelan,

Assigning a team to a board in Portfolio does not make it impossible for a single member of a shared team to be assigned to issues from different JIRA projects / boards.

If you want to assign a team member from a different team to an issue, you will have to change the team responsible for that specific issue manually. And then assign the team member of that team to the issue.

So step by step:

• In scope view find the issue you want to assign to a specific member of a different team
• Change the team to the team your desired assignee belongs to
• Then assign the assignee to the issue

[Andrew Whelan]

Hi @Walter Buggenhout,

Thank you for your answer, this works exactly as you say - but the result is that an issue assigned to a shared team member cannot be allocated to a JIRA sprint in the portfolio scope view, unless the shared team is associated with the board on which that sprint appears.

If an issue is already allocated to a JIRA Sprint, then when I assign it to the shared team member, portfolio removes the sprint value and places it in a 'virtual' sprint that exists in the Portfolio Plan but not in any JIRA board.

Interestingly when I commit my changes, in JIRA the issue DOES appear in the original sprint, assigned to the shared team member. 

So I now have a single issue which appears in 1 sprint in JIRA, and appears in a different sprint in Portfolio. If I want to push it back a sprint, I cannot do this in Portfolio, I can only do it in JIRA. In Portfolio the 'Sprint' value is locked.

As an aside, the virtual sprints that portfolio has created don't line up with my JIRA sprint cadence, the portfolio sprints run for 2 weeks from Friday to Thursday, while my JIRA sprints run from Saturday to Friday.

I must be missing something and I would really appreciated any further advice, we're quite new to portfolio and just trying to establish the best ways of working with it.

Thanks,

Andy