Fetch the comment added during a transition

Abstract

This code snippet fetches the comment added during a transition

Logic

Access the body of the last comment of the issue, if it was created less than 6 seconds before.

Snippet 

Placeholders

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Examples

The output of this snippet is a String which you can use to:

• Set a text field with the comment that was just created. Eg: Set a custom text field to the comment that was just added in one of the Set field value post-functions

• Notify of the most recent comment. Eg: Adding the most recent comment on the issue to its linked issues or as subject of an Email etc 

  • Comment in one of the Comment issue post-functions

  • Subject/HTML body/Text body of Email issue post-function

    {% if issue.fields.comment.comments and now | date('diff',issue.fields.comment.comments | last | field("created")) < 6000 %} A comment: "{{ issue.fields.comment.comments | last | field("body") }}" has been added on the linked issue. {% endif %}

    
    
    

References

• Using Nunjucks Templates

• issue variable

• Accessing JIRA Standard fields

• now variable

• date filter, last filter and field filter

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