A dup to B: how to carry over ticket A's labels to the linked ticket B when closing A as a duplicate

[Eric Yang]

Please advise how to use a post function in a workflow to carry over the ticket A's labels to the linked ticket B when closing A as a duplicate to B. 

[mararn1618 _secretbakery_io_]

Hey @Eric Yang , are you on Cloud and are the duplicates usually created manually?

A preventive measure could be this addin I've just shipped, which warns users in case they create duplicates: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1224559/no-duplicate-issues-jira-cloud

[Kristian Walker _Adaptavist_]

Hi Eric,

I can confirm with ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud you could loop over the linked issues and then call the Edit Issue rest API to set the labels from the first linked issue to the next linked issue when a linked issue is closed.

I can confirm we have an example Script here which can be run on the script console and shows how to copy the labels from one issue to all its linked issues and you will be able to use this script as a reference guide to help create the script that you require.

Regards,

Kristian

[Ravi Sagar _Sparxsys_]

Hi @Eric Yang 

I think that it might also be possible using the built in Automation rules as well. When updating the fields you can use "Additional fields" to update labels using JSON. I made a video on this topics if that helps.

Ravi

[Drew Nedderman]

Hi @Ravi Sagar _Sparxsys_ Great video! How can I adapt this to copy labels from one issue to another when using the Issue Linked trigger?

Here's what I'm doing so far:

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Matt Doar]

Likely a ScriptRunner groovy scripted post function. But what if there is more than one linked duplicate issue?