Suggestion: Action to stop execution and exit

[Korayem]

In some scenarios, if a certain condition is met, I dont need to continue running the automation script

To circumvent this, I have to add that condition to all the script but will be much easier to have an Action called "Stop Script Execution" that simply exits and doesn't continue

[Gabriell Valentine]

I also hate that this functionality is missing. It's pretty basic programming. To get around this I used a combination of if/else gates, a custom label field and a simple if gate. First thing the automation does is clear any values from the custom field called "Issue Automation Flags", then it checks a bunch of conditions. if any of them return true it adds the trigger to a label field. Then I put an "If Issue Fields Automation Flags is not empty" step before whatever I actually want to run.

[Victor Seger]

Hello @Korayem ,

Automation for JIRA Support team member here!

I'll be discussing this with our development team and as soon as I got any updates, I'll let you know here!

Cheers,

Victor

[Victor Seger]

Hey @Korayem ,

After discussing this with our dev team, we found that this would probably be tricky to implement.

Can you please give me an example of where the action could be better to have than a condition?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Victor

[Ryan An]

@Victor Seger 

I have the same need. I can explain what my scenario is:

In the automation, I want to add a new sub-task to a Story when something else is triggered. However, I don't want it to be added if it already exists. so:

• I loop through all the sub-tasks of a hardcoded Story
  • If the summary == {{issue.summary}}
    • I want to exit the execution
• Not has been found from the previous loop, so I will add a sub-task

[Ryan An]

in the current JIRA design, I cannot prevent duplicated sub-task from creating. 

[Ryan An]

reported in another ticket:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/JIRA-Automation-Action-that-terminates-the-execution/qaq-p/1454165#U1464993