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

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


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



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

  • Text (case sensitive)
  • Text (ignoring case)
  • Regular expression (case sensitive)
  • Regular expression (ignoring case)


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


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

  • 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.


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

  • First
  • Last
  • All


Choose the type of delimiter to be drawn along. The following options are available:

  • Text (case sensitive)
  • Text (ignoring case)
  • Regular expression (case sensitive)
  • Regular expression (ignoring case)



You have the following options:

  • 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





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Short descriptionCopy an excerpt of an issue field using leading and trailing delimiters.
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