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Aliases represents a powerful tool to refer custom fields indirectly, making your scripts function obvious. |
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Addressing fields by its Jira internal name is not useful. Nobody likes to write 'customfield_12067' instead of a meaningful variable name. Because of that Thus we allow addressing the fields by name , though with the disadvantage that this may prove erroneous (field name resolution does not take into account that there may be more than one custom field with that name).
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