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How to I copy a text custom field to the description field in Jira?

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December 19, 2012

I am looking for a simple way to copy a text custom field to the description field in Jira.

Data base query solution acceptable ;)

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December 24, 2012

This? https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI/Documentation#Documentation-copyFieldValue

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December 19, 2012

You can write a post function to copy field to description.

Add this post function for transition, then with bulk transition you can for all the requests.

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December 19, 2012

Do you want to append the text field value to the description of the issue for all issues ?

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