How do I use a wiki markup formula to indicate if a specific field has multiple entries.

[Marc Formisano]

For example, if there is a field called "worked iterations" and the value is either empty or has values that show up in the same column separated by commas I would like to indicate 1 value as GREEN, 2 values as ORANGE and 3 or more values as RED.  An example of "worked iterations" with 3 values is:  2023-1 Dec 7 - Feb 28, 2023-2 Mar 1 - Apr 25, 2023-3 Apr 26 - Jun 20

[Darryl Lee · Accepted solution]

Hi @Marc Formisano so you're talking about wiki markup so you're probably talking about a custom field of type Text Field (multi-line).

So I think you're saying that in this table in your "worked iterations" field:

||heading 1||heading 2||dates|| |row A|col A2|2023-1 Dec 7 - Feb 28| |row B|col C2|2023-2 Mar 1 - Apr 25, 2023-3 Apr 26 - Jun 2| |row C|col C2|2023-1 Dec 7 - Feb 28, 2023-2 Mar 1 - Apr 25, 2023-3 Apr 26 - Jun 2|

You would want the last cell in row A to be green, row B to be orange, and row C to be Red?

HUH, that's interesting. AFAIK Jira's text formatting does not allow for any conditional formulas.

I googled for: wiki markup conditional jira

The only thing that seems relevant (but also massive overkill) seems to be Structure:

• Excel-like formulas and conditional formatting in Jira? Yes, you can! Here’s how 

OH, I thought of a pretty gnarly hack using Automation for Jira:

You could parse that field after creation (or maybe also whenever it gets edited), using the match operator using a regular expression like "\d{4}-\d \w{3} \d+ - \w{3} \d+" and then get the size of the list returned, and then make that part of a condition to add {color:red} tags around the text. And this would all have to be used in conjunction with replace or replaceAll. Hum, I just don't know.

I think another problem is this that would only work if the table had ONE row, because ... I don't think there's a way to iterate over multiple lines.

Any thoughts, @Bill Sheboy ?

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Marc Formisano -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Adding to the answer from @Darryl Lee ...please consider the answers to these questions as they may help the community offer suggestions:

Are you using Jira Cloud or Server/Data Center?

What is the type of the field, "worked iterations"?

Is your scenario "when I enter/change values in the Worked Iterations field, I want the field values' color to change based on the number of selected items?"

When you described this scenario to your Jira admin, what did they suggest?

Kind regards,
Bill

[Dave Rosenlund _Tempo_]

Hi, @Darryl Lee & @Bill Sheboy.  90% sure @Marc Formisano is indeed talking about a Structure Formula so it may not be massive overkill if he's already using Structure for other reasons (and I am also 90% sure he is). 😊

You'll get more/better/quicker help, @Marc Formisano, if you can confirm cloud or data center (if you work for the company I suspect you do, you're on data center) and that indeed you're talking about Formulas in Structure.

Best,

-dave

[Marc Formisano]

I was able to accomplish this using the size() formula, emojis and wiki markup.  Thanks for your responses

[Darryl Lee]

Ha, I need to do a better job of reading tags. As @Dave Rosenlund _Tempo_ surmised and @Marc Formisano confirmed he was using Structures, just like the tags say:

Whoops!

[Dave Rosenlund _Tempo_]

You're good, @Darryl Lee. 👍

I added those tags after @Marc Formisano confirmed he was using Structure with his reply. This way future community visitors might find the post and answer more easily.