Copy Summary to another Field

[Marzi Goodarzian]

Hello

Is there a way for  copy summary to another field(multi text)?

Many issue should be update as bulk and their summaries copy to other field.

thanks very much

[sukkeong · Accepted solution]

You can try editing the workflow to add a temporary transition from the current state to itself. And, in that transition, perform a post-function to copy the value from one field to another (or append if required) - this may require a plugin to provide this post-function needed

Once workflow has been updated and published, perform a bulk transition of the issues of interest from a search (or JQL).

After summaries copied, update the workflow to remove this temporary transition. Viola!

Pre-requisites

• A plugin to provide the post-function to copy or append values from one field to another. There are a few such plugins available in the marketplace
• Bulk editing permissions
• Workflow edit permissions

[Marzi Goodarzian]

Thanks @sukkeong 

[Daniel Ebers · Accepted solution]

There are several options to accomplish this but some of them are a bit complicated. For example, you could export the affected issues into a CSV file and update existing issues using this file.
You also could export the field's data using a (self-coded) script via REST API access and re-import it to the desired fields.

The easiest way, but probably not the one who comes at no cost, would be to utilize an App that provides this function out of the box.

Cheers,
Daniel

[Marzi Goodarzian]

Thanks @Daniel Ebers