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).


Leading delimiter

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

OptionDescription

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:

OptionDescription

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:

OptionDescription
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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