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Sometimes it might be helpful to have customized test issues at hand for several scenarios; testing new feature implementations, new project setups or simply new JWT automation rules.

The following rule will take care of Creating customized issues for testing anything that needs to be tested.

UI Steps

Manual trigger

UI Step

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	DECADIS:Automation Use Case - Create Rule Step
	DECADIS:Automation Use Case - Create Rule Step
nopanel	true

UI Step

Add a Trigger → Manual

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type	note

No further configuration needed. The rule will only be executed if a user hits the Execute button .

JQL Selector

UI Step
Add Selector → JQL Selector

UI Step

JQL Query

Use the following Expression:

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language	bash
linenumbers	true

key = nnnnn

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nnnnn has to be an issue key. In this case we are going to create test issues as sub-tasks under a predefined issue.

But you can also adapt the configuration to create tasks in a specific project/ under an epic/ etc.

Create issue action

UI Step

Next to the JQL Selector click on Add → Action → Create issue

UI Tabs

UI Tab

title	Issue Details

UI Steps

UI Step

Issues to be created

Choose Multiple issues

UI Step

Parser Expression

Enter the following expression with mode set to date/ mathematical:

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language	bash
linenumbers	true

UI Step

Issue type

Choose one of the available sub-task issue types

UI Step

Issue type

Choose Selected issue

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title	Fields

UI Steps

UI Step

Summary

Enter the following Expression with mode set to Advanced text:

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language	bash
linenumbers	true

"+++TESTING+++ Sub-task " + ^

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Description

Enter the following Expression with mode set to Basic text:

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language	bash
linenumbers	true

Sub-task for testing purposes

UI Step

Fields

Set the fields according to your needs.

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This is how the configuration above should look on your screen

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name	create-test-issues.mp4
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Import the example

Import the JSON file below to get started in no time.

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title	JSON

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After importing the JSON file, make sure to check the configuration of the rule. Non-existing configuration elements (issue types, fields, values etc.) will be highlighted.

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theme	Midnight
linenumbers	true

{
    "name": "# Create test issues",
    "description": "",
    "creator": "admin",
    "status": false,
    "triggerData": "",
    "triggerType": "MANUAL",
    "configuration": {
        "refs": [
            "issue",
            "system",
            "trigger.issue",
            "trigger.parent"
        ],
        "actingUser": "field_00020",
        "triggerType": ""
    },
    "children": [
        {
            "sequence": 0,
            "type": "JQL_SELECTOR",
            "ruleEntityType": "SELECTOR",
            "configuration": {
                "refs": [
                    "system"
                ],
                "jql": "key = EO-57",
                "jqlParsingMode": "jql",
                "actingUser": "field_00020"
            },
            "children": [
                {
                    "sequence": 0,
                    "type": "CREATE_ISSUE",
                    "ruleEntityType": "ACTION",
                    "configuration": {
                        "refs": [
                            "issue",
                            "issues",
                            "selector.issue",
                            "selector.parent",
                            "system",
                            "remote.math"
                        ],
                        "issueSelectionParserValue": "3",
                        "issueSelectionParserValueParsingMode": "math",
                        "issuetype": "5",
                        "parentSelection": "selectorIssue",
                        "parentIssueKeyParsingMode": "textBasic",
                        "projectKeyParsingMode": "textBasic",
                        "actingUser": "field_00020",
                        "summary": "\"+++ TESTING +++ Sub-task \" + ^",
                        "summaryParsingMode": "textAdvanced",
                        "description": "Sub-task for testing purposes",
                        "descriptionParsingMode": "textBasic",
                        "inheritFieldsFrom": "none",
                        "inheritFieldsIssueKeyParsingMode": "textBasic",
                        "inheritIssueLinks": "none",
                        "inheritIssueLinksIssueKeyParsingMode": "textBasic",
                        "fields": [
                            {
                                "field": {
                                    "label": "Priority",
                                    "value": "00017",
                                    "meta": {
                                        "isStringEphemeral": false,
                                        "isCustomField": false,
                                        "isIndexable": false,
                                        "isCalculated": false,
                                        "isMultiValued": false,
                                        "type": "Issue priority",
                                        "isNumericEphemeral": false,
                                        "isSystemField": true,
                                        "hasStandardConfig": true,
                                        "isSubtaskOnlyField": false,
                                        "isMultiWritable": false,
                                        "isNumericField": true,
                                        "isVirtualField": true,
                                        "id": "17",
                                        "key": "priority",
                                        "isClearable": true
                                    }
                                },
                                "valueType": {
                                    "label": "Selected value",
                                    "value": "fix"
                                },
                                "value": {
                                    "label": "High",
                                    "value": "10001"
                                },
                                "parsingMode": {
                                    "label": "",
                                    "value": ""
                                }
                            }
                        ],
                        "issueLinks": [],
                        "issueSelection": "math",
                        "inheritFields": []
                    },
                    "children": null,
                    "hasChildren": false
                }
            ],
            "hasChildren": true
        }
    ],
    "hasChildren": true
}

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JWT feature
Automated action	Create issue action
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Status

Tech review

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Style guide

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title	to do

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colour	Green
title	done

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colour	Yellow
title	needs review

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colour	Red
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Manual trigger

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JQL Query

Create issue action

Issues to be created

Parser Expression

Issue type

Issue type

Summary

Description

Fields

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Import the example

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