Copy description text to custom field

[MarcosQ]

Hi! We are trying to add part of the text from the Issue Description to a custom field.

Explanation: 

*When you set Jira mail handler to create issue via email, there is an option to set a " Default Reporter".  But this option does not allow to add the "legitimate" reporter as a watcher, or unless send him notifications of the issue updates.

Jira add in Description somethin like: "[Created via e-mail received from: username <username@email.com>]".

So we want to create a script to add part of that text (just the email between < >) on a custom field. Then we will notify the user via post-function with email this issue addon as "recipients stored in fields!. 

Thnaks in advance!
Marcos.

[Steven F Behnke]

Not possible out of the box.

Why don't you us the ability for JIRA to determine the user from the email? It should be an option instead of setting a default reporter.

[MarcosQ]

Thanks for the reply Steven.

Because if the user does not exist on Jira, will create the account. We don't want that. 

We just need anonymous users to have the hability to create issues via email and get the notification when the issue is completed.

[Steven F Behnke]

Do you have any plugins to support this? Like ScriptRunner?

[MarcosQ]

Yes, I do have scriptrunner.

[jira guy]

I am trying to do the same thing with script runner. @MarcosQ Were you able to achieve this?

[Steven Behnke]

To be honest, this is trivial. Write a regex to capture the email between the less than and greater than symbols, and then add that to a custom field and update the issue. This would be a Script Listener likely.

[jira guy]

I actually made this work in a similar way using an automation rule. 

Event: Issue Created

Edit Custom Field: Email Address

{{issue.description. substringBetween(" <",">]")}}

Now I want to send an Issue Created email to this email address, but this automation rule applies after the issue created event...

[jira guy]

Automation plugin also has publish event option which allowed me to send notifications. Script listener captured the event and sent notifications

Thanks All