Is it possible to set automation for the first comment only?

[Liam Maeder]

Good day

I am trying to set up automation that updates a custom field, but only on the first comment.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[Sebastian Krzewiński]

Hi @Liam Maeder 

What do you use to do this? Automation for JIRA add-on perhaps?

Regards,

Seba

[Liam Maeder]

Hi @Sebastian Krzewiński 

I am trying to use JIRA Automation.

Thanks

[Sebastian Krzewiński]

Hi

Did you try {{issue.comments.size}}?

More info you can find here: https://docs.automationforjira.com/reference/smart-values.html#issue-comments

Below example how you can use it:

Regards,

Seba

[fran garcia gomera]

scriptrunner provides a JQL function to get issues with a given number of comments

issuefunction in hasComments()

https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/latest/jira/jql-functions.html#_hascomments

With this you can set a condition in automation (in case you are using it)

also it could be possible to access the number of comments via smart values for automation.

something like {{fields.comments.size}} and use it as a condition comparing the value with 0 (not checked, just guessing)