JMWE Jira Expression Workflow Condition - Check if issues exist with following parameters

[Ahmad Sidawi]

Hi there, 

I'm a newbie with JMWE Jira Expressions and i'm trying to build a Workflow Condition which is as follows:

If issues exist which have the current issue key in a customfield, and summary contains 'TT', then allow the transition.

I've trounced the documentation and can't see to find what I'm looking for in terms of a JQL query. Any ideas?

[David Fischer · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ahmad Sidawi ,

you can't use JQL queries in Cloud conditions and validators. That's a limitation of Jira Cloud.

However, if I understand correctly, you want to allow the transition only if:

• customfield_10500 is not empty
• customfield_10500 contains an issue key (is customfield_10500 a Single-line Text custom field?)
• the issue whose key is contained in customfield_10500 must contain TT in its Summary

Is that correct? If so, this is the Jira expression you're looking for:

issue.customfield_10500 != null && new Issue(issue.customfield_10500).summary.match(".*TT.*")

[Ahmad Sidawi]

Pretty close. Customfield_10500 is a Parent Link field with a key.

Several issues might have the same Parent Link.

I'm currently looking at the Parent, and I want to check if any issues with that Parent Key contain TT.

So if the Parent has a key of GT-1010, i want to check any other issues which have GT-1010 in customfield_10500, and if any of those issues contain 'TT'.

[David Fischer]

Unfortunately, this is simply impossible on Jira Cloud. You want to look at "child" issues according to the "Advanced Roadmap" hierarchy, and that hierarchy is not available from Jira expressions.

[Ahmad Sidawi]

Ahhh OK. Thank you David. We are instead now looking at using a Boolean or Yes/No dropdown field to demonstrate this within the parent issue rather than looking at the child issues. 

I'll give that a go (should be much easier :) ).