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Description

This article explains how to allow the post function to only create the issue if certain conditions are met by the original issue. For instance: 

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Types of conditioning

Subtask conditioning

This has been available for many versions. It prevents the creation of subtask if the original issue is a subtask and the configuration says to not create a subtask in this case. It has the optional capability to create a subtask which is a sibling of the original issue.

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Pattern matching conditioning

This takes advantage of the find/replace capabilities to provide a very flexible way to condition the creation based on matching issue information with a regex pattern. This may be a little bit more complex/less usable for simple cases, but can be very powerful for covering many use cases. The simple cases can still be done with little knowledge of regular expressions.

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Refer to Pattern matching conditioning for more details.

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This example shows 2 simple conditions being used:

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