Confiform Linking multiple issues

[Brian Karst]

Is it possible to link more than one issue? I have a request that wants a created issue to be linked as a child of two different issues. I got a message saying that only one was allowed. Is there a way to accomplish this? @Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ 

[Darin]

Yeah, even if you try to add more issues to the call, it will only link the last one in your list of issues to link.

With confiforms, I added the first link during the onCreated event in the 'IFTTT Integration Rules' macro.

With the result of the created Issue added to [entry.JIRAKey], I reference that in a subsequent 'IFTTT Integration Rules' macro that runs during the onCreated event, and updates that new Jira issue with my second link.

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

That is a smart way of doing this! Thanks for sharing @Darin 

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Hi

Not really a super pro in Jira REST APIs, but according to this https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-use-rest-api-to-add-issue-links-in-jira-issues-939932271.html you shall be able to do it

As the "issuelinks" element expects an array

"issuelinks":[
         {
            "add":{
               "type":{
                  "name":"Blocks",
                  "inward":"is blocked by",
                  "outward":"blocks"
               },
               "outwardIssue":{
                  "key":"TEST-1"
               }
            }
         }
      ]

 so, logically it should be able to take multiple instructions / links

Alex

[Brian Karst]

I thought so too! The best I could do that hasn't given me a syntax error is this message

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Oh, that's unfortunate. Well, if Jira says so then it seems that you will need to have just more calls (to Jira) and cannot do it in one go

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Yes, this is a limitation of Jira REST API, see this bug https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-66329

@Darin @Brian Karst