Copy excerpted value

With this post function you can copy an excerpt of a specific field by defining a leading and trailing delimiter. For this, either normal text or a regular expression can be used.

Configuration

Source field

Select the field to get the value from (e.g., summary, assignee).

Target field

Select the field the value will be copied to (e.g., new comment, reporter).

Excerpt configuration

Leading delimiter

Choose the type of the leading delimiter you will enter next. The following options are available:

Option	Description
Text (case sensitive)
Text (ignoring case)
Regular expression (case sensitive)
Regular expression (ignoring case)

Expression

Enter plain text and optionally use field codes to insert field values. This will be the actual delimiter to be searched for.

Excerpt pattern

Select how the value between the delimiters should be processed. The following options are available:

Option	Description
None (copy whole text between the delimiters)
Number
URL
Email
Date and time
Regular expression (case sensitive)
Regular expression (ignoring case)

When selecting one of the Regular expression options, you will be able to enter a regular expression to further process the matched text.

Multiple pattern matching

Select which value should be processed in case of multiple pattern matching. The following options are available:

First
Last
All

Trailing delimiter

Choose the type of delimiter to be drawn along. The available options are the same as

Additional options

You have the following options:

Option	Description
Update issue immediately	Each field update results in a dedicated "Issue Updated" event and issue history entry
Write protection	Do not overwrite existing values
Include leading delimiter	Include it to the output
Include trailing delimiter	Include it to the output

Conditional execution

You can optionally specify a logical expression to define the circumstances (or conditions) under which the post function should be executed.

The result of the logical expression must return a boolean value of either:

true → the post function will be executed
false → the post function will not be executed

Using the conditional operator, even complex or multi-layered conditions can be constructed.

Make sure to learn more about defining logical expressions and browse through the various examples here: Logical mode

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