Jira Automation: Link issues with all lookup issues

[Martin Karing]

Hello,

I'm currently trying to link issues automatically using Jira automation. The problem in my specific case is, that I need to link every issue that matches a condition with every issue that matches another condition.

Specifically, from my issue starting the progress I need to update all issues that are linked to the issue, and link those issues with the result of a lookupIssues list.

Usually I would use a "Branch" for that, but this does not work in my case, because I use one already to get all the issues connected by a link.

To link all the issues, I tried to use the following advanced field editing expression.

{
  "update": {
    "issuelinks": [
      {{#lookupIssues}}
        {
          "add": {
            "type": { "name": "2. Blocks" },
            "inwardIssue": { "key": "{{key}}" }
          }
        }{{^last}},{{/}}
      {{/}}
    ]
  }
}

 This works in case lookupIssues contains exactly one issue (that is the usual case). But it fails with a message explaining only one "function" can be used in issuelinks in case there are two or mor issues in lookupIssues.

How do I go about fixing that?

Best regards,
Martin

[Evgenii · Accepted solution]

Hi, @Martin Karing 

You overcomplicated solution. It can be done with smart values.
Just use {{lookupIssues.key}} as smart value, in Link Issues action.
Made small example to show, how it works:

[Martin Karing]

Thank you @Evgenii

this works indeed. Guess the hep page for the link work items action lead me to believe that it only works with one.