Adding label based on already existing labels

Question

Hello Community,

Whenever a task is transitioned from a status "In testing" to "To Do", I'd like to add a label that depends on which time such a change occurred, for example:

1st time transition from "In testing" to "To Do" --> add "label-1"

2nd time transition from "In testing" to "To Do" --> add "label-2" and remove "label-1"

3rd time transition from "In testing" to "To Do" --> add "label-3" and remove "label-2"

I tried 2 different approaches:

1st approach using advanced branching --> this behaves like a for loop and loops over until final label is reached

2nd approach using if/else if --> this works fine for the first iteration, so it adds the "label-1" but then every time it succeds (success in audit log)  but there's no any change

Looking for any ideas how to fix that!

Oliver Siebenmarck {Polymetis Apps} · Answer

Hi @Michał Nowak ,

I think that's exactly what @Matt Parks  is getting at. Your condition is "labels is empty OR labels is NOT empty", which will always be true.

If you can rely on the labels being applied correctly, I would build my conditions just with that, like so:

labels not in (label_1, label_2, label_3, label_4, label_5) => add label_1

else if labels = label_1 => remove label_1, add label_2

else if labels = label_2 => remove label_2, add label_3

..and so on.

Hope that helps,
 Oliver

Michał Nowak_kb7bek · Answer

Hello,

Does anyone has an idea how to fix that?

Michał Nowak_kb7bek · Answer

Hello Matt,

Thanks for your answer - there are OR operators everywhere