Automation for Jira: Trigger if certain label was added. How?

[flaimo]

I am struggling with a case, where I would like an automation rule to trigger if a certain label was added. I can use the "field value changed" trigger, but this doesn't allow to check if some specific label was added or removed. How do I do this?

[Robert Levelind · Accepted solution]

Hey @flaimo - you are almost there!

When: Value changes for "Labels"

If: Labels contain any of (Label of your choice)

Then: Actions you want performed

[flaimo]

this doesn't work. it triggers every time, regardless if the label was added, or if it was already there before (and the rule was triggered because another label was added).

[Robert Levelind]

It will always be triggered because a value changed - the important thing here is if the IF condition kicked in or not :) do you mind sharing your current recipe? 

[Robert Levelind]

Misunderstood the issue at hand - I figured it out:

So you basically have to make a double IF check here comparing the fieldChanged before and exclude it from the trigger if it was already there.

[flaimo]

that did it the trick. thanks for the example.

[Michelle Woodbury]

This does not work for me; would someone be able to provide guidance? 

[Joost Jonker]

Hi @Michelle Woodbury

I had to use {{fromString}} to make it work. This has probably changed since 2020.

[Norberto Henriques]

If you use fromString, you may risk having a "true" condition if there is a label that contains all the text of the string you're checking.

Eg: For_qa_validation in labels, if you check for qa_validation it would still match although there is no label with just "qa_validation.

I was trying to use the raw value {{fieldChange.from}}, but it does not seem to do the trick now.

[Omer Ronen]

How do I add the "And: compare two values checks if" in Jira Prem? is that possibale? 

[sergei_lavrov]

This is a fieldChange object contents:

ChangeItemBean{fieldId='labels', field='labels', fieldType='null', from='null', fromString='', to='null', toString='test'}

Just leaving this here, cause i needed it to understand the mechanism.

Thanks for the solution people, it really helped.

[Eran Nir]

Hi, @flaimo @Norberto Henriques 

We have Jira Server version.

I would like to send Slack msg to a Slack channel, when I add/set Label- "X" to an existing (not in creation of a ticket)  Jira ticket (notthnaks.

which solution should I use? is it possible w/o automation add on?

Thanks