How do you get an issue to be reopened upon mailanswer or comment?

Belinda Pettersson Björklund September 19, 2013

I have tried to find a simple explenation and resolution for this, but i don't seem to find it anywhere.

Is there anyway to simple apply somewhere in Jira to automatically reopen issues upon mailanswer/comment?

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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September 19, 2013

Sort of. It's a two-step process though.

First half of it is to use an "auto transition listener". This is a listener that would listen for an event such as "comment", and if it spots one (on a closed issue), it pushes the issue through a re-open transition

The second half is to set up an email inbox to process replies - the default email "handlers" in the system will interpret an incoming mail as a comment if it mentions an issue in the subject line, and that comment will then fire the event which will trigger the listener above

See https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Creating+Issues+and+Comments+from+Email and https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JTOOL/Auto+Transition+Listener

Belinda Pettersson Björklund September 19, 2013

I added the Auto Transition Listener in Advanced -> Listeners with

com.atlassian.jira.toolkit.listener.AutoTransitionListener

as Class.

The Values I entered is:

  • Action ID 3
  • Event ID 6
  • Only do when current user is in (Multi-) User Picker custom field: false
  • Only do when current user is the Assignee? false
  • Only do when current user is the Reporter? true
  • Only do when current user is the following? false
  • Project Key BO,BPD,WEB,OE,ECOLL,ECOLW,ECOLPO,ECONL,ECOYL,ID,HR,IE,ISS,JS,MAR,PUR,RET
  • Status 4

Project key is for all our projects, so this will be many more in the end :P

Does this look right?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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September 19, 2013

Yes, looks right to me (although my memory is unclear on the exact ID numbers of events and actions in the default workflows)

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Belinda Pettersson Björklund September 25, 2013

Yes it works! :D

Thanks for all the help :)

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Belinda Pettersson Björklund September 25, 2013

Yes it is working :D

Thanks for all the help :)

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