Parsing JIRA Issue keys from field and then appending them to linked issue Summary field

[JamieS]

I've been trying to do something with your plugin but I'm either not using the post-functions correctly or I'm not getting the syntax right. I've reviewed the syntax specification for the parser but when I try to use it within the "Copy a parsed text to a field" post function it always shows errors when I save the post function.

Here is what I am trying to do...

I have two issues, the main issue (A) and a linked issue (B). I have a customer field "Related Work" on issue A which I want to parse all of the JIRA issue keys from and then append them on to the Summary field of issue B. I will need to first find all issue keys currently in the issue B Summary field and remove them.

Based on the syntax specification I believe I need the following logic:

// Clear all JIRA Issue keys from within the linked issue Summary field with replaceAll( fieldValue(%{00000}, linkedIssues()), "[a-zA-Z]+-[0-9]+", "" )

// Append all JIRA Issue keys found in the Related Work custom field to the linked issues Summary field. append( fieldValue(%{00000}, linkedIssues()) , findPatternIgnoreCase(%{13820},"[a-zA-Z]+-[0-9]+") )

Is this even possible to do? If so, what might I be doing wrong? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

[Fidel Castro Armario]

Hi Jamie,

You should use "Write field on linked issues or subtasks" with the following configuration:

Source value is:

replaceAll(^%{00000}, "\\s*,?\\s*[a-zA-Z]+-[0-9]+", "") + " " + toString(findPattern(%{nnnnn}, "[a-zA-Z]+-[0-9]+"))

replacing nnnnn with field code of Related Work custom field.

Note that ^%{00000} is field code for Summary in linked issues.

Issue keys will be appended at the end of the Summary of linked issues as a comma separated list of issue keys.

[JamieS]

Works great Fidel! I really appreciate the quick response.

One tweak I need to make was to add the trim() function around the replaceAll, otherwise everytime the post function got called another space was getting appended to the Summary field.

trim(replaceAll(^%{00000}, "\\s*,?\\s*[a-zA-Z]+-[0-9]+", "")) + " " + toString(findPattern(%{nnnnn}, "[a-zA-Z]+-[0-9]+"))

[Fidel Castro Armario]

Yes, Jamie. You are right.