How to edit version.description after a version is created?

[Sere Walkens]

I want to add more information to version.description after a version is created. To be specific, after detecting the version is created, I want to send a get request, get a reponse, then concat the response to version.description. Am I able to do this? I tried the concat function in "Add value to the audit log" action but it does not work out. Thank you!

[Sere Walkens]

Still waiting for answer

[Stefan Salzl]

Hi @Sere Walkens 

could you please send a screenshot of the current state of your automation rule?

This might help to get a better understanding of your requirement and to see where you might got stuck.

Best
Stefan

[Sere Walkens]

The trigger of my automation is when version created. First, I get the information of the version. Then, I send a web request and get some responses. I want to add some strings that I got from the request to version.description. 

The way I want to do it is the use the concat function for the smart value. I tried to do this {{version.description.concat('{{webhookResponse.body.result}}')}} in "Add value to the audit log" section, but it gave me an error that says 

Log action

Error rendering smart-values when executing this rule:

Failed to get value for version.description.concat('{{webhookResponse.body.result}}') 

Do you know how I should add information that I get from web request to version.description?

[Stefan Salzl]

Hi @Sere Walkens 

could you add another "log action" and just print the value you are trying to add with concat?

so just print out the value of the smart value you are using --> {{webResponse.body.result}}  and let´s see what the result is.

Best
Stefan

[Sere Walkens]

The information I want to add is a string which I can successfully print out in log. It's not the result itself, it's the child of the result. 

[Stefan Salzl]

@Sere Walkens i see.

Did you try to add the smart value of the response without the quotation marks?

If this doesn‘t work could you try to first save your part of the response (you‘d like to to concatenate) into a variable and then resolve the variable in your .concat method? (i thought about that bc variables are automatically stored as type string).

Further question:
Did you test without smart value by just concatenate with a string?

Can‘t test right now. Hope I could give some helpful inspiration.

Best
Stefan

[Sere Walkens]

Yes it helps! I appreciate your help. When I typed {{version.description.concat( webhookResponse.body.result.child)}} it shows the right string. I need to add the smart value without the quotation marks and the double brackets.

However, I cannot assign this new value back to {{version.description}}. I didn't find the Create Variable action in New action. 

Do you know why I cannot see Create Variable action in New action?

Talk soon,

Sere

[Stefan Salzl]

Hi @Sere Walkens 

sorry for the missleading information. I didn´t know it´s on server/data center. Unfortunately the "create variable" is not availabla (currently) on data center but it seems atlassian is already working on it:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JIRAAUTOSERVER-22

As far as you have to use another webRequest to update your version did you try to directly resolve the webResponse directly in your 2nd webrequest that would do the update ?

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/7.6.1/#api/2/version-updateVersion

Best
Stefan