automation - Advanced compare "or" condition??

[Jack Brickey]

Calling all automation gurus...

So I'm building an automation using the advanced compare condition to perform a pattern match on the last comment. Basically I want to transition an issue to in progress if the last comment contains any of a certain number of words. However at the advance compare condition seems to only have the "all match" capability. As shown below ideally I could choose if any match. I know I can do if/else block but that seems so inefficient.

ugh.... will load image later. The community app does not like safari and won't allow me to load an image. Driving me crazy. :(

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jack Brickey 

How about an advanced compare condition using a regular expression?

• first value: {{issue.comments.last.body.match("(foo|bar|hello)")}}
• condition: does not equal
• second value: leave it empty

You will need to refine that expression if you want whole words only, case-sensitive, etc.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Jack Brickey]

thanks Bill!

so here is what i currently have

so applying your guidance I would use the following...

but not sure I get the use of "does not equal" and "empty". I think I am misunderstanding here.

[Bill Sheboy]

That match() function will return any matches found for the regular expression.  If any of them are found, the result "does not equal" empty...so proceed with processing.  I tested this way and it seems to work.

I believe another way to do this is invert it, and put a regular expression in the second value and try for a match rather than no-match.

[Jack Brickey]

Cool! I will give it a go.

cheers

[Mykenna Cepek]

Late to the party, but...

OPTION 1:  Some OR conditional functionality is built-in to some conditionals. Example: "is one of" option in the "Issue fields condition". That can check, for example, if the Assignee is Mary or Bob.

OPTION 2:  When there is no built-in support, the smart value or() function provides a messy but functional alternative:

https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-conditional-logic/#or

Sample use case:  A rule triggers on a new Comment added to an issue, and I want to proceed only if it was Mary or Bob who added the comment. The "Issue fields condition" doesn't provide access to the comment author (it's not a standard or custom field for an issue).

So I'll use a "Smart values condition" instead: 

It's a bit brittle, as the user name is in text form (whereas the OPTION 1 approach above relies on user ID values internally).

You could check against just comment.author if you knew the user ID value, but that would make your rule much less readable -- my Cloud user ID is 43 characters of nonsense.

[Mykenna Cepek]

Also, the "If/then/else" conditional in Jira Cloud now has an option for AND vs OR with the configured conditions: