Introduction to Jira expressions
Jira expressions can be used to evaluate custom code in the context of Jira entities. It’s a domain-specific language designed with Jira in mind, evaluated on the Jira Cloud side. Jira expressions follow JavaScript syntax. You can think of them as a JavaScript dialect. Jira expressions uses a data model loosely inspired by Jira's REST API JSON model. You can learn more about the various data types supported by Jira expressions here, and explore them interactively on the Data Types help tab of the Jira expression editor. To quickly find out how to access a particular issue field, you can visit the Issue Fields help tab. Finally, to find out which global ("context") variables can be used in an expression, visit the Global Variables help tab.
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Jira expressions in JMWE for JIRA Cloud
Jira expressions in JMWE for Jira Cloud are used to insert information in
- Linked Issues Condition and Linked Issues Validator to check on each linked issue
- Scripted (Jira expression) Condition and Scripted (Jira expression) Validator to input a Jira expression to be evaluated
- Validator scope to control the execution of the validator in Linked Issues Validator and Linked Issues Status Validator
You can insert issue, transition and current user information into the conditions using Jira expressions.
Scripting features in Jira expressions
To learn more about Jira expressions:
Limitations of Jira expressions
Limitations on the number of linked issues that will be taken into account
limitations inside the Jira expressions written by users
no error reporting yet
no reliable evaluation of the "cost" of Jira expressions