How to set up an Automation that copies linked Confluence Pages to another issue?

[Khira Niemeier]

Hey there,

I am currently setting up an Automation that is supposed to copy the linked Confluence Pages to another issue. (Actually the other issue should be a clone of the issue and it should get the same linked confluence pages.)

The Confluence Pages we are talking about are the ones mentioned on Jira issues:


I already found out that I can get the linked Confluence pages when using the rest API thingie in the browser.

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-remote-links/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-remotelink-get

And I doublechecked, it really returnes the URL of the linked Confluence pages needed.
 

"application":{"type":"com.atlassian.confluence","name":"Confluence"},"relationship":"mentioned in","object":{"url":"https://p-games.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2861694977",

So now my question is:

How do I get this into an automation?

My understanding how this automation should be working is this:

My only problem now is I don't have a clue how to make it work and how to write this in a proper way.

I think my biggest issues in these regards are:

- The issue key changes every time this Automation runs, so it needs to be set in the automation and I can not manually use the browser and copy paste it into the automation - the automation itself needs to look up these things.

- Even if the Automation manages to get these infos, I don't have a clue how to set the value for the new issue - like when step one is to copy, I even don't know how to paste it afterwards and where.



I really hope this makes sense to anyone. :D 
If there is a way to make this work, please help me. I am even happy about tiny steps into the right direction. :) 

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Khira Niemeier 

To call a REST API endpoint from a Jira Automation rule, please use the Send Web Request action, as described in this article: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Automation-for-Jira-Send-web-request-using-Jira-REST-API/ba-p/1443828

Once you have the response message, you may parse that to get the links need.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Khira Niemeier]

NOT the answer to my question

only

How to use the Rest API page:

I will write this down now, as it took me way too long to understand this. So maybe this will help somebody else. :D 

Use in the browser:

https://<your-domain>.atlassian.net<rest-api-input>

replace <your-domain> with your own domain - lets say "p-games".

peplace <rest-api-input> with the input from this page that you would like to use:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-remote-links/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-remotelink-get

Example - Get remote issue links:
/rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/remotelink

replace {issueIdOrKey} with the Issue Id or Issue Key

This is how it looks on the page and where to copy from: 
 

Now your URL in the browser should look like this (not really like this but with your inserted data of course):

https://p-games.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/SF-123/remotelink

When you press enter it should return some information similar to this: 

[{"id":28321,"self":"https://p-games.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/SF-123/remotelink/28321","globalId":"appId=77fc247a-3e23-3ae5-ba7e-b5b5c396129b&pageId=2861694977","application":{"type":"com.atlassian.confluence","name":"Confluence"},"relationship":"mentioned in","object":{"url":"https://p-games.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2861694977","title":"Page","icon":{},"status":{"icon":{}}}}]

I hope this helps, if you are stuck at the same point where I was stuck the last days. ;)