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When you add this post-function to a transition and trigger the transition, the add-on copies the value(s) of the source field into the destination field value of all the related issues.

Target issue(s)

Select the issues to copy to. They can be:

• Linked issues: Select issue(s) linked to the current issue through any link type or a specific link type such as blocks, is cloned by, etc.

• Sub-tasks of the current issue: Select this option to operate on the sub-tasks of the current issue

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

• Issues that belong to the current Epic: Select this option to operate on the issues that belong to the current Epic

• Epic of the current issue: Select this option to operate on the Epic of the current issue

• Child issues of the current issue in the Portfolio hierarchy: Select this option to operate on the child issues of the current issue in the Portfolio hierarchy

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

• Issues returned by a Groovy script:  Input a Groovy script that returns either a single Issue object, or a Collection of Issue objects, or a String representing the key of an issue, or a Collection of Strings each representing an issue key. For example:

  • "TEST-1"

  • ["TEST-1","TEST-2"]

  • ComponentAccessor.issueManager.getIssueObject("TEST-1")

  • [ComponentAccessor.issueManager.getIssueObject("TEST-1"),ComponentAccessor.issueManager.getIssueObject("TEST-2")]

  • issue.parentObject

  • issue.getLinkedIssues()

• Issues returned by a JQL search:  Input a JQL search expression, including an optional Groovy Template markup. For example:

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

  • project = ${issue.get("project").key} and assignee = ${currentUser.name} returns issues of the project the current issue belongs to and assigned to the current user.

  • To operate on issues of a project with key TEST and issue type name same as the value in a text field

    Code Block
    <% if (issue.get("Single line text")) { %> project = TEST and issuetype = ${issue.get("Single line text")} <% } else { %> issuekey=INVALID-1 <% } %>

Options 

• Copy only if not set

Copies the value(s) of the selected field into the same field of all the related issues, only when the field is empty on the related issue(s).

• Ignore empty values

Will not set (clear) the selected field of the related issues, if the value from the current issue is empty or null.

• Add source value(s) to destination field

Appends the value(s) of the selected field to the destination field of all the related issues. This is applicable only to multi-valued fields.

• Create missing value(s)

Allows automatically creating any missing value(s) while copying values that do not exist in the destination issue's project and hence should be created from the source issue's project. This is applicable only to Affects Version/s, Fix Version/s, Single version and Multi-version picker type custom fields, Components, Radio buttons, Checkboxes, Single select and Multi-select list type custom fields.

Run As

• Run as user

Any user specified in this field will be the author of the copy performed by the post-function. Leave it blank for the current user to be the author.

Conditional execution

Input a Groovy expression that returns true if the post-function should run. For more information see Conditional execution using Groovy expression. Note that the condition will be evaluated once per applicable related issue, with each related issue being available, in turn, in the relatedIssue and deprecated linkedIssue variables.

Error Handling

By default, all errors (Java Exceptions) raised by this post-function, including those raised by custom Groovy scripts, will be logged in the JIRA log file but will not be reported to the user and will not prevent the transition from completing.

 However, when designing new workflows or troubleshooting them, it is more convenient to be notified immediately of any such error during the execution of the transition.

For example on the

production Jira instances you might want to show errors only for the post-function(s) being worked on, in order to avoid disrupting other workflows.

 To make

errors raised by the current post-

function prevent the transition from completing and show the error in the browser, select Make transition fail when an error occurs in this post-function.

If you want to show all the errors, either only to the admins or to all users, configure the option

globally on the JMWE configuration page. For example,

 on development and staging Jira instances, you can activate error reporting for all

 JMWE post-functions, to display all the errors and it is recommended to do so, and on production Jira instances you might want to activate error reporting only to administrators so that they can be made aware of configuration errors.