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Automated action

Create issue link

Use case description

Automatically link issues based on comments.

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Use case

A handy option in Jira is to use issue keys in comments to reference them whenever needed. But as the amount of comments grow, it can get hard to keep track of all mentioned issues in the comments. Therefore, the following rule checks for issue keys being added to comments and automatically links them to the current issue.




Issue Commented event



Add a trigger → Issue event → Issue Commented

No further configuration needed. The automation rule is triggered every time an issue is being commented.



Boolean condition

Add a Condition → Boolean Condition 


Expression*

Use the following Parser Expression:

findPattern(%{trigger.issue.lastComment},"([A-Z][A-Z0-9]+)-\\d+") !~ null



Boolean expressions are logical constructions that return true or false.

The findPattern() expression parser function extracts the issue key from the last comment.



Create issue link action

Next to the Boolean Condition click on Add → Action → Create issue link


Issue link type* 

Choose relates to (Relates)


Issue selection*

Choose Issue List Expression


Use the following Parser Expression*:

issueKeysToIssueList(toString(findPattern(%{trigger.issue.lastComment},"([A-Z][A-Z0-9]+)-\\d+")))



The findPattern() expression parser function extracts the issue key from the last comment.









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