JIRA Automation: Add a prefix to SUMMARY when a label is entered

[Deleted user]

Hey everyone,

question as follows: During refinements we are adjusting our story names for visibility by adding the BE/FE prefix on a story and also using the label.

I wanted to write an automation when a label is introduced then the name gets edited to BE - OLD SUMMARY NAME but i couldn't find a way to do it.

Adding a picture to explain, thank you in advance!

Example

• Story Name is CHANGE NAME
• Label FRONTEND is added
  Story Name(summary) is changed to FE- CHANGE NAME
  
  
  
  
  
  

[Alexis Robert · Accepted solution]

Hi @[deleted] , 

so far your rule looks good : the only thing missing is, in the Edit Issue action, you will need to enter the following smart value for Summary : 

FE - {{issue.summary}}

This way, the value "FE" will be added before the issue summary. It's as simple as that !

You can have a look at the Smart Value documentation here : https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/smart-values-general/

Let me know if this helps,

--Alexis

[Deleted user]

Thank you alexis, i just added it and will let you know how it works out!

[Deleted user]

@Alexis Robert i just tried the above but it removed the old issue summary and just replaced it with FE - , what can i do that FE is an addition to the existing summary and not just an overwrite?

EDIT: Disregard the above, i had a typo at SUMMARY :) Works great. thank you!

[Alexis Robert]

You're welcome ! Please mark this answer as accepted so that other people can also find it in the future 🙂

[Nipa Urbanz]

@Alexis Robert to branch out on this topic.  Is there a way to grab a certain part of the field value?   For example, if my {{issue.key}} = ITA-123 and I only want to put 123 (minus the ITA-) in my Summary field.   Thanks in advance.

[Fabian Lim]

Hi @[deleted]

You need to apply smart values which is explained here: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/what-are-smart-values/

In your case it would be something like this:

"FE" + {{issue.summay}} + {{ issue.labels}}

You may have to use some of the string functions to make this work.

Good luck