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Copying JIRA Standard fields from a linked issue during the Create transition doesn't work

Owned by Radhika Vijji. (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jul 12, 2017 by David Fischer

This issue applies to JMWE 4.x only. If you haven't upgraded to JMWE 5, follow the workaround below.

Problem

Copying a Standard JIRA field from a linked issue (such as the Epic) fails on the Create transition.

Details

This is due to a limitation of JIRA. On the Create transition, post-functions that set standard fields (such as Fix Version/s or Labels) should be put before the Creates the issue originally built-in post-function. But the link between the new issue and its linked issue is not created until the issue is created (during the "Creates the issue originally" post-function) and hence when the post-function runs, it doesn't find the linked issue.

Workaround

Create a hidden transition from the <to_status> of the Create transition to itself, put the post-function on the new transition, and finally trigger it using the Transition Issue post-function on the Create transition.

Creating the hidden transition:

  1. Add a transition from the <to_status> of the Create transition to the same status. Name it Post-create (for example).
  2. Add the post-function that copies a field from the linked issue to the Post-create transition
  3. Add the Hide transition (JMWE add-on) Condition to the Post-create transition

On the Create transition:

  1. Add the Transition issue post-function and specify Post-create as the transition to be triggered.
  2. Ensure that it is placed after the Creates issue originally built in post-function.

Note that the outcome of the post-function will likely not be visible immediately - you will need to refresh the issue view to see the new value of the field.