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| A workflow post-function that creates a comment on all issues linked to the current issue through a selected link type. The text of the comment to be created can be any simple text or a text with Nunjucks annotations. |
To add 'Comment linked issues' post-function to a transition :
- Click Edit for the workflow that has the transition you wish to add the post-function on.
- In the Workflow Designer, select the transition.
- Click on
Post Functionsin the properties panel. - Click on
Addpost function. - Select
Comment linked issuesfrom the list of post-functions. - Click on
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- Select the link from the
Issue Link Typedrop-down. - Input a comment in the
Commentfield.
To input issue or linked issue or transition or current user information in theCommentfield see, How to insert information using Nunjucks annotations. - Select the options provided to add the required parameters.
- After adding, move the post-function to the appropriate position according to Placing post-functions in a transition document.
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For information on where the post-function needs to be placed on a transition, see Placing post-functions in a transition.
Refer to the Use cases for the post-functions page for use cases for this post-function.
Refer the Troubleshooting and Support page if the post-functions does not seem to be working as you would expect.When you add this post-function to a transition and trigger the transition, the add-on picks the value entered in the Comment field and adds it as a comment on all the issues linked to the current issue through the selected link type. The Comment to be created can be any simple text, e.g. This is a comment. You can also use Nunjucks annotations to insert issue, linked issue, transition and current user information into the comment text, using the 'issue', 'linkedIssue', 'transition' and 'currentUser' variables, respectively. To find out more about these variables, see How to insert information using Nunjucks annotations.
Comment visibility
Restrict to Group
Restricts the visibility of the comment to a specified group. When you select a valid group name in the Restrict to Group field, the comment will be visible only to the members of the specified group. For no restriction, leave the field blank.
Restrict to Project Role
Restricts the visibility of the comment to a selected project role. When you select a project role from the Restrict to Project Role drop-down, the comment will be visible only to the members of the selected project role. For no restriction, leave the field blank.
Restrict to Internal (Jira Service Desk only)
Restricts the visibility of the comment to the Service Desk Agents and Collaborators only.
Run As
- Run as current user
The current user will be the author of the comment created on the linked issues by the post-function.
- Run as add-on user
The add-on user will be the author of the comment created on the linked issues by the post-function.
- Run as this user
Any user selected in this field will be the author of the comment created on the linked issues by the post-function.
Conditional execution
To execute this post-function based on the result of a Nunjucks template see Conditional execution.
Delayed execution
To delay the execution of this post-function see Delayed execution.
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Note that you can use this function to comment:
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