After creating PR, post URL into comment Automation

[Vanessa]

Hey there,

I wanted to create an automation regarding the following:

- When a Pull Request is created, post a comment with the URL of the Pull Request into the comment of the Jira issue

- If a Code Reviewer is already added, mention the Code Reviewer in the comment too.

We have the following field (?) in the Jira Screen that already shows that there is a pull request but it would also be needed in the comment.

Maybe someone has a easy solution for this :) 

Thank you already in advance!
-Vanessa

[Patrik Korovsky]

Hi @Vanessa

You can create a simple automation, for example (first part is optional):

Hi [~accountId:{{assignee.accountId}}],

A new PR is ready for you {{pullRequest.url}}!

You can read more about development smart values here: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-development/

[Stefan Salzl]

to the answer of of @Patrik Korovsky i‘d like to add:

The reviewer of a PR could be another person than the assignee. The reviewer is something living within the repository and is not connected to any increment in Jira (not even a user —> could be at least it doesn‘t have to).

Furthermore there is no smart value to retrieve the PR reviewer. To achieve this (i know in github) a webrequest could be sent to get this information via Rest API.

Best
Stefan

[Vanessa]

Hello,

so in general it works, but a small thing I do not want the Automation to take the Person from the Assignee field but from the field "Code Reviewer":

Our field is written this way:

In the Automation I wrote it like this:

Do I need to name it Code Reviewer.accountID ?

Or why would it not put the Code Reviewer in the comment? (The field is filled out, I just used an empty example picture here)

Thank you!

[Patrik Korovsky]

Hello @Vanessa

As Stefan mentioned, the "Code reviewer" feature does not exist natively in Jira. So I assumed the next best thing is assignee.

Since you created a custom field, yes, you can use it instead of "assignee". I don't think you can use "Code Reviewer.accountID", but you can get the id for the custom field: "Hi [~accountId:{{customfield_XXXX.accountId}}]", where XXXXX is the custom field id.

You can find the id by following this guide https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-find-id-for-custom-field-s-744522503.html

Cheers,
Patrik