How to implement the "For Each / Smart Value" feature of Cloud in Jira Data Center

[vincenzo_spatafora]

Dear All,

who would know as how to implement in Jira Data Center (I use version 9.12.5) the steps as described in here (applicable only for Jira Cloud):

(Automation rule to send single email for all issues per assignee due next week | Automation for Jira | Atlassian Documentation

Thanks in advance,

Vincenzo.

[Laurie Sciutti · Accepted solution]

hello @vincenzo_spatafora ~ unfortunately this isn't yet available for DC.  I would suggest up voting the Suggestion here:  https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JIRAAUTOSERVER-749 

[vincenzo_spatafora]

Thank You @Laurie Sciutti for letting me know.

I will vote for sure.

But in the meantime, do you see a way out that can be implemented in DC?

Kind Regards,

Vincenzo.

[Laurie Sciutti]

@vincenzo_spatafora ~ can you detail exactly what you're trying to do?  Maybe there is an alternative approach...

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @vincenzo_spatafora 

Adding to Laurie's suggestions...

I believe the only workarounds at this time are checking the Atlassian Marketplace for an app or using a saved filter.  There are two ways to do the saved filter approach:

1) Create a saved filter which returns the issues due in the next week which are assigned to the currentUser().  Ask your team members to subscribe to that on a weekly cadence.

2) Create the same saved filter, and use a scheduled trigger rule with Lookup Issues to identify the distinct assignees with JQL, and send them an email with a link to the filter.  When each person opens the linked filter, it will contain their list of issues.

Kind regards,
Bill

[vincenzo_spatafora]

Hi @Bill Sheboy, @Laurie Sciutti thanks for your suggestions.

I have tried your "saved filter" way out and already it helps.

Is there a way to send the email to each of the assignee with the list of their own issues (being assigneed to them) ?

So, the assignee wouldn't get the list of the issues being assigneed to other users.

 The "For Each / Smart Value" feature of Cloud would have done the job for us.

Thanks, Vincenzo.

[Bill Sheboy]

Vincenzo, the answer is, "no, that is not possible with an unknown number of assignees".

As Laurie already described, the feature allowing iteration over the distinct assignees does not exist in Jira Data Center automation rules.

If you have a small number of users (less than 20 people), another workaround would be to test for each user's issues to send them an email.  For example,

• trigger: scheduled
• action: lookup issues with JQL
• if / else condition, with the advanced compare: check if the first user has any issues assigned in the result
  • action: send them an email, filtering the results using list filtering: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-articles/Filtering-smart-value-lists/ba-p/1827588
• start a new if / else condition, with the advanced compare: check if the second user has any issues assigned in the result
  • action: send them an email, filtering the results using list filtering: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-articles/Filtering-smart-value-lists/ba-p/1827588
• start a new if / else condition, repeating the above logic for each possible assignee

Rules like this can be difficult to maintain and so they are prone to errors.

[vincenzo_spatafora]

Thank you @Bill Sheboy.

Thanks for your help.

Kind Regards, Vincenzo.