Copy Linked Issue Comments to Parent Issue

[Weston Rossborough]

I would like to copy comments of a linked issue to the parent issue when the linked issue is closed. I was able to accomplish copying the last comment of a linked issue by following the instructions outlined here.

Is it possible to copy over all comments from the linked issue? If so, I would also like to include and preserve information on when the comments were made and whom they were made by if also possible.

Thanks

Weston

[Fidel Castro Armario]

Hi Weston,

Sorry for the delay in my response. Currently is not possible to copy all the comments as comments to other issue, but you can compose a text with all the comments of an issue and their creators, and copy it to a text field. To do it you have to use the following text expression (in advanced parsing mode):

toString(textOnStringList(allComments(), nthElement(allCommenters(), indexOf(^%, allComments())) + ": \n" + ^%), "\n\n")

[Weston Rossborough]

Hi Fidel,

Thanks for the response back. This actually accomplishes what I was looking for! Is it possible to include the date/time of the child comments that are copied to the parent issue?

Thanks,

Weston

[Fidel Castro Armario]

Sorry @WestonR, but currently is not possible to add date/time information for the comments. I'm including it in the to-do list for future versions of the plugin.

[Weston Rossborough]

No worries, these instructions help greatly! You can go ahead and close this ticket.

[Fidel Castro Armario]

Thanks

[Weston Rossborough]

Hi Fidel,

While testing this solution I noticed the following problem. Comments copied from the linked child ticket to the parent ticket don't seem to display the commenters correctly. I created a test ticket, created a linked ticket as the child, then added several comments between my account and a test account. Here were the results I got from this test.

Comments in child ticket:

Comments in parent ticket:

As you can see the comments that are copied to the parent ticket from the child display the wrong name for the commenter. It seems like it's getting hung up when a different user adds a comment to the child ticket.

Here are the screenshots of the post functions I'm using.

Post Function to create child comment:

Complete Post Functions: URL) causing this?

[Weston Rossborough]

Added problem description in last comment.

[Fidel Castro Armario]

Sorry, I used allCommenters() mistakenly. The correct function to use is allCommentCreators().

Use the following string expression:

toString(textOnStringList(allComments(), nthElement(allCommentCreators(), indexOf(^%, allComments())) + ": \n" + ^%), "\n\n")

[Weston Rossborough]

Perfect! This is working now.

Thank you!