Outside-the-box use of wftoolbox

[Will]

Can I place some function at the Create step of a workflow so that if someone emails junk to the jira project it doesn't create an issue.

I realize that this isn;t the best way to go about this, the right way would be to place a rule on the email server but i don't have access to that at this time.

As a workaround could toolbox be used to inhibit the creation of issues if some given sting is in the body of the email?

Thanks,

[Fidel Castro Armario]

You can do it using "Boolean validator with math, date-time or text-string terms" in "Create Issue" transition using a configuration like this:

Boolean expression is:

%{00001} !~ "forbiden_word_1" AND %{00001} !~ "forbiden_word_2" AND %{00001} !~ "forbiden_word_3"

The former expression prevents issues to be created if its Description contains any of 2 forbidden words.

If you want to create a validation that ignores the case use the following expression:

toUpperCase(%{00001}) !~ "FORBIDDEN_WORD_1" AND toUpperCase(%{00001}) !~ "FORBIDDEN_WORD_2" AND toUpperCase(%{00001}) !~ "FORBIDDEN_WORD_3"

In this case you should write the forbidden case in uppercase.

[Fidel Castro Armario]

I close the issue. Please, reopen it if you keep needing support on it.