Shared Action post-function

When you add this post-function to a transition and trigger it, the add-on runs the sequence of post-functions defined in the selected shared action on the target issues.

Issue(s) to operate on

Select the issues on which the shared action should run. They can be:

• Current issue: Select this option to run the shared action on the current issue. This is the default option.

• Sub-tasks of the current issue: Select this option to run the shared action on each sub-task of the current issue

• Parent issue of the current sub-task: Select this option to run the shared action on the parent of the current issue

• Issues that belong to the current issue (Epic): Select this option to run the shared action on each issue that belongs to the current Epic

• Epic of the current issue: Select this option to run the shared action on the Epic of the current issue

• Child issues of the current issue in the Portfolio hierarchy: Select this option to run the shared action on each child issue of the current issue in the Portfolio hierarchy

• Parent issue of the current issue in the Portfolio hierarchy: Select this option to run the shared action on the parent issue of the current issue in the Portfolio hierarchy

• Issues linked to the current issue through any link type: Select this option to run the shared action on all issues linked to the current issue

• Issues linked to the current issue through the following link type: Select this option to run the shared action on the linked issues of a specific link type. Select the specific link type under “Issue link”

• Issues returned by the following Nunjucks template:  Select this option to run the shared action on the issues returned by the result of a Nunjucks template. Input a Nunjucks template which is a comma-separated list of valid issue keys. For example:

  • "TEST-1"

  • "TEST-1","TEST-2"

  • {{ issue.fields.parent.key }}

  • {{ issue.fields.subtasks | join(",", "key") }}

• Issues returned by a JQL search: Select this option to run the shared action on issues returned by a JQL search. Input a JQL search expression. For example:

  • project = TEST returns issues of the project with the key TEST

  • project = {{ issue.fields.project.key }} and assignee = {{currentUser._accountId}} returns issues of a project that belong to the project with key TEST and the assignee is the current user

  • {% if issue.fields.assignee %} assignee = {{issue.fields.assignee._accountId}} {% else %} issuekey=INVALID-1 {% endif %}

    Note that the {% if %} block is necessary to avoid an invalid JQL query when the issue is unassigned. In that case, the template will return a valid JQL query that returns no issue (issuekey=INVALID-1).

Passing variables within a sequence

Using the {% setContextVar %} Nunjucks tag, you can pass data from one post-function to all subsequent post-functions.

transition.context: Holds all the context variables added in the current post-function. For example, if you create a context variable myVar in the first post-function of the sequence:

This variable will then be available in subsequent post-functions as:

 Note that this variable will not be available in the Nunjucks tester. 

Variables specific to the Create Issue(s) post-function

newIssueKey: Stores the issue key of the last issue created by a Create Issue(s) post-function in the sequence. You can access it as:

newIssueKeys: Stores an array of the keys of all the issues created by any Create Issue(s) post-function in the sequence. You can access the created issues from

For example: to add a comment on the current issue with the keys of the issue created

You can access the information of a specific issue using the issue filter. For example: To get the assignee of the issue created by the Create issue post-function:

For example, consider a use case where you want to clone an issue and its subtasks to another project, then:

1. Navigate to the Jira Settings → Apps → Shared actions

2. Click on "Shared actions"

3. Click on "New shared action"

4. Add a name "Clone ticket and its subtasks" and an optional description

5. Click on "Add post-function"

6. Select the "Create issue" post-function.

   1. Select the destination project in "Project"

   2. Select the "Link to new issue" as "clones"

   3. Configure the fields

   4. Click on Save

7. Click on "Add post-function"

8. Select "Create issue" post-function to clone the sub-tasks

   1. Select the destination project in "Project"

   2. Select the "Issue type" as "Subtask"

   3. Under the "Parent issue" input the following template:

   4. Select "Multiple issue creation" option and input the following template:

   5. Save the post-function.

9. Click on "Save"

10. Go to the workflow editor, pick the transition and add the "Shared action" post-function

11. Select "Clone ticket and its subtasks"

12. Click on "Add"

13. Publish the workflow

Error handling

If one of the post-functions fails with an error, the remaining post-functions in the sequence are run anyway. To stop the execution of subsequent post-functions after an error occurs, select the option “Skip subsequent post-functions if a post-function encounters an error”.

Conditional execution

To execute this post-function based on the result of a Nunjucks template see Conditional execution.

Delayed execution