Automation - projects array

[Gema Ruiz]

Context:

I have several projects in Jira, and one of those project which I use to mantain mandatory documentation about the other projects.

project documentation --> project.id = AAA

Several projects with diferent projects id, for example {project.id:001,.... project.id:050}, and differents projects lead (project.lead)

Problem:

What I want to do is to create a rule triggered manually where I set an array of projects id and the rule creates a package of issues in project AAA, each pack of issues relates to the each project.id and its project.lead.

Is this possible?

Thank you very much in advance!

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Gema Ruiz 

If I understand your question, your scenario is:

Given I have a Jira project with documentation, and that project has a custom field containing a list of other projects
When I manually trigger an automation rule
Then that rule will create several issues in the projects specified by the list of other projects

That seems possible, although I believe you would need to use a web request to call the REST API to create the issues.  The built-in Create Issue action cannot take a parameter/field to select the target project.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Gema Ruiz]

ohhhh thank you!! any tip about how to implement it using a request to call the rest api?

Thank you for your help!

[Bill Sheboy]

Here is a how-to article for calling a REST API function from a rule:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Automation-for-Jira-Send-web-request-using-Jira-REST-API/ba-p/1443828

And here is the reference for the REST API functions for issues.  There is a single Create Issue and a Bulk Create Issues to consider.

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issues/#api-group-issues

[Gema Ruiz]

Thank you very much!