Release automation with rich text

[Pablo Botas]

Hi experts! We are sending automatic Slack messages when a new version is released with something similar to this:

Hi team!! New version <https://company.atlassian.net/projects/XXX/versions/{{version}}/tab/release-report-all-issues|{{version.name}}> was released on {{version.releaseDate.mediumDate}}. Nice work!

Release description: {{version.description}}

Please, ask any questions in this thread :point_down:

However, now there is a rich text field replacing the description as the main description of the release in the UI. How could we use data in that field? See the following image for clarity

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Pablo Botas 

Are you asking: how can the markup in the field be used the Slack message?

That may not be possible unless the markup syntax is the same.  Automation rules do not have built-in translations to other markups.  If the syntax is simple, you could try using the replace() or replaceAll() functions to perform the translation.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Pablo Botas]

Thanks Bill! Yes, not worried now about how to actually make it look nice in Slack, although that'd be the ultimate goal. So far I could not find the data field that needs to be used to get the rich text (although maybe with a different markup) to Slack.

[Bill Sheboy]

Thanks for clarifying...

There have been a couple of other questions / posts asking this, and I believe those new  release section fields are not available to the public REST API functions yet, and so they are also not available to automation rules.

[Murat Seven]

Hi @Pablo Botas 

Could you please provide more details about your specific use case? Additionally, could you include a screenshot about your rich text field? I attempted to use your context, but I did not observe any rich text in the version section.

Are you referring to the description field in an issue?

 

[Pablo Botas]

Yes Murat, I have edited the question and added a screenshot. The description in your screenshot is ok, I can get it to slack, but there is this new rich text section that I don't know how to access