How can I check for when a specific label has been added or removed?

[Simon Weil]

I want to trigger an action when label 'mylabel' has been added or removed.

It should not trigger when a label containing 'mylabel' has been added or removed, for instance 'mylabel1' or '111mylabel-2'.

How can it be done?

[Petter Gonçalves · Accepted solution]

Hello Simon,

JIRA Post functions only triggers upon issue transitions. That been said, you will need a plugin to trigger any action when an issue is edited - More specifically when a new label is created.

You can use Automation for JIRA App to configure a rule that will trigger upon a new label creation, adding the condition that this label must not contain "mylabel":

Let me know if this information helps.

[Esther Strom]

@Petter Gonçalves I know this is a year old, but I have a similar requirement. 

From what I can tell, your solution doesn't tell us that the ticket previously had a label of "mylabel" and now it doesn't; all it tells us is that at the time the rule is triggered, there is no label of "mylabel" - the ticket may never have had that label. Is that correct?

My requirement is to trigger a rule when a specific label is removed from a ticket, as we have Plans (advanced roadmaps) set up pulling from a label and if someone accidentally (or not) removes the label then the issue disappears from the plan. I've looked at smart values, and see that there is a fieldChange.fromString and fieldChange.toString, but I'm not sure I can use those in this kind of rule. Can you help me out?

[Masudur Rahman]

I had the same requirement and did the following tedious way. This might be helpful if you still need to fulfil your requirements. 

Thanks

Masud

[Ganesan Chandrasekaran]

Thanks for sharing this. How to use .fromString and .toString on arrays like labels. 

[Wojciech Wardaszko _HeroCoders_]

I know it's been ages, but I just found this and it's very useful, thanks!

For the array to string issue, looks like this list.join smart value function will do the trick.

[Chris Buzon]

Masudur this is brilliant and useful.  Thanks!