Is it possible to ammend a string to a customField?

[Matheus F_ Nishida]

Hi All,

My idea here is to ammend any hardcoded string, e.g. "Hello World" to a customField inside JIRA smart value (JIRA Automation web request).

Does anyone knows if that's possible?

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Matheus F_ Nishida 

Would you please provide more details about what you are trying to accomplish/dynamically update: the URL, the request data, something else?

For example, in another thread, I learned it does not appear to be possible to dynamically update (or even include) an issue key in the URL for a web request action to the Jira REST API.  So if that is what you wanted to do...it does not appear to work for Jira Cloud.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Matheus F_ Nishida]

I'm working on a automation for JIRA function, to perform a web request to an external service.

The issue I'm facing is to build the JSON request, with custom fields. 

For example this is the POST request body:

{

    "field1": {{issue.custom_field1.value}},

    "field2": "Hello World" + {{issue.custom_field2.value}}     <----

}

How can I concatenate an string with a custom field inside a JSON POST request body?

[Matheus F_ Nishida]

Hi Bill

I was able to solve my issue by concatenating the JSON body as per using the same template from the link you shared:

"testField1":"Hello World {{ issue.customfield1.value }}", 

And it worked!

[Bill Sheboy]

Matheus, I am glad to learn you got it to work that way.  There is also a concat() function to help with combining smart values, as described here:

https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-text-fields/#concat-String-str-

[Matheus F_ Nishida]

I read that documentation, however it's not possible to concat a String first and, then, the custom field, right?

I can concat customfield with a "Hello World", but cannot do that the other way around, e.g. "Hello World" with customField

[Bill Sheboy]

That is correct.  As a work-around, you could first set the literal string to a Created Variable, and then concat() to that.