JMWE Conditional expression

[Anette Noll]

Hi all.

need help for the following scenario:

Within a workflow I have a custom field with various checkboxes. If I click checkbox A and B two other workflows are generated and linked to the parent issue.

Problem is, das A and B are generated again with each transition.

It is no solution to use function delete value.

I wonder how is the expression for:

If field x contains A than workflow must not be generated (again).

[Anette Noll · Accepted solution]

Hi David,

Yes, you are right. 

This is the shared action which is used. I guess that the last term (run shared action conditionally) must be complemented like:

only run this if 'job content list' is not null and job was not choosen before

[David Fischer · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anette Noll 

by "two other workflows are generated", I assume you mean that you are creating two other Jira issues, correct? Are you using the Create Issue(s) post-function for that? Can you share you current configuration?

[Anette Noll]

Hi David,

Yes, you are right. 

This is the shared action which is used. I guess that the last term (run shared action conditionally) must be complemented like:

only run this if 'job content list' is not null and job was not choosen before

[David Fischer]

Hi @Anette Noll ,

question: imagine your checkbox field has 3 values: A, B, and C. The first time you run this post-function, A and B are selected so you create two new issues. Later, you run the post-function again but this time A, B and C are selected. Do you then want to create a new issue for C, or just do nothing because an issue was already created earlier for A and for B?

[Anette Noll]

Hi @David Fischer  ,

that is exactly the case:

"The first time you run this post-function, A and B are selected so you create two new issues. Later, you run the post-function again but this time A, B and C are selected. Do you then want to create a new issue for C"

[David Fischer]

In that case, you can't use conditional execution, which runs only once for the Create Issue(s) post-function and not once per issue to create. Instead, you need to modify the Iterator so that it only returns values for which an issue wasn't created before.

You can try something like this (I'm not able to fully test it though):

{% set values = issue.fields.customfield_10200 %}
{% for linkedIssue in issue | linkedIssues("relates to", ["customfield_10200"]) %}
  {%set values = values | filter(["value",linkedIssue.fields.customfield_10201],true) %}
{% endfor %}
{{values | join(",","value") }}

where  customfield_10200 is the ID of the Job Content List KATB field and customfield_10201 the ID of the Subsystem KATB field.

[Anette Noll]

Hi David,

thank you for your time but problem persits in the same way:

checkbox field has value: A (customfield_10200); i.e. Roboter. The first time post-function runs, A is created. Then value B is selected (i.e. Portal) additionaly; post-function runs again, B (Portal) is created but also A (Roboter) is created repeatedly.

Maybe screenshot helps to describe problem more precise:

[David Fischer]

Can you share a screenshot of the updated post function?

[Anette Noll]

[David Fischer]

Sorry, I noticed a mistake in the iterator script I suggested. On line 2, it should be customfield_12904 (the field that is then accessed on line 3). 

[Anette Noll]

It works perfect!

Thank you so much!!