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Status updates are key to successfully managing projects. Usually you need to capture additional information which often gets lost in the comment history.

This use case combines multiple custom text fields and populates the automatically using post functions.

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title	Create three custom fields

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Create a custom field of type: Text Field (multi-line)

Name: Status Update

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Create a second custom field of type: Text Field (multi-line)

Name: Current status

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Create a third custom field of type: Text Field (multi-line)

Name: Status History

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Navigate to the Field configuration and set the renderer of the 3 custom fields to "Wiki Style Renderer".

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title	Create a transition screen

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Create a new screen

Name: Status Update Screen

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Add the field Status Update to the newly created screen.

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title	Set up a workflow transition

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Create a new transition with the following parameters:

From Status: Any

To Status: Itself

Name: Status update

Screen: Status Update Screen

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Add a Fields required or changed validator to the newly created transition.

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Field

Status Update

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Condition

Is required

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Message to show when validation fails

Code Block
Please enter a status update!

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Once set up, the validator should look something like this:

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Add an Update or copy field values post function to the workflow transition created in the prerequisites section.

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Target issue

Choose Current issue

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Configure the field: Current Status

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Field

Choose Current Status

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Expression

Set the parsing mode to Advanced text and use the following expression

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linenumbers	true

"*" + dateTimeToString({system.currentDateTime}, "yyyy-MM-dd", USER_LANG) + "* - *" + %{system.currentUserFullName} + "*\n" + %{issue.cfnnnnn}

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type	info

%{issue.cfnnnnn} is the field code for the field Status Update

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Configure the field: Status History

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Field

Choose Status History

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Expression

Set the parsing mode to Advanced text and use the following expression

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language	bash
linenumbers	true

%{issue.cfaaaaa} + "\n\n" + %{issue.cfbbbbb} 
#adds the current status to the history after inserting a line break

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type	info

%{issue.cfaaaaa} is the field code for the field Current Status

%{issue.cfbbbbb}is the field code for the field Status History

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Configure the field: Status Update

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Field

Choose Status Update

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Value

Choose Clear field value

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type	info

The field value must be cleared, so users will be presented with an empty text field the next time they leave a status update.

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User

Choose Current user

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JWT feature
Workflow function	Update or copy field values Fields required or changed
Parser functions	dateTimeToString()
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hidden	true

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Add the field Status Update to the newly created screen.

Field

Condition

Message to show when validation fails

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Target issue

Field

Expression

Field

Expression

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User

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