How to use monospace formatting with Jira Automation?

[Tim Graffam]

We would like to use monospace formatting in a Jira Automation Comment rule. Since the markup for monospace is double curly brackets - the same characters used for Smart Values - I havent figured out how to accomplish this.

Is this possible to accomplish?

Thanks!

[John McKiernan · Accepted solution]

Hey Tim,

John from Automation for Jira here. 

It's a good question and the answer is yep you can definitely do this. 

What you need to do is open the smart value with a backslash. 

So, this would print out in monospace:

 \{\{monospace\}\}

Hope this helps!

John 

[Tim Graffam]

Thanks!

[carlotac]

@John McKiernan1 

I wanted to use the monospace formatting in a description while using automations. If I try {{monospaced}} there is no output and if I try \{\{monospaced\}\} the output is {{monospaced}} with the brackets. 

What shoud I do to use monospace formatting in descriptions?

[Brad]

The accepted answer doesn't actually work in Automations... it just outputs "{{monospace text}}" as opposed to actually applying the monospace style to the text.