The Update fields post function automatically updates a single or multiple issue fields on one or multiple target issues.

Additional field values can be inherited or manually set using parser expressions.

In this documentation and the post function configuration you will notice the symbol ( * ) next to some parameters, it means that this field is mandatory and shall not be left empty. Fields without the symbol are optional.

The issues to be updated. If a list of issue keys is passed, the update will be performed for every issue in the list.
The following options are available:

• Current issue

• Parent issue

• Parser expression

  The output has to be an issue key or a list of issue keys .

Set or clear values for specific fields.

In the popup after clicking the Add button you can select to set the value in three - or when dealing with selectable fields - four ways:

• Copy field from current issue
  

• Clear field value
• Set field value manually - Read more about parser expressions

• The fourth option Selected value is available for the following fields:
• • Jira Software fields
  • User related fields (Assignee, Reporter)
  • Version related fields (Affects version/s, Fix version/s)
  • Component/s
  • Labels
  • Priority
  • Resolution
  • Security level
  • and all option based custom fields that are supported

• For every selectable field type you can select one of the predefined options for this field that are available in the global context .
  
  Simply use the UI elements you are used to when creating or editing an issue. A radiobutton value, for example, can be set like this:
  

Choose which user* will be able to execute the post function. By default, it is set to the Current user.