Replacing Summary

[Margaret Medon]

Having difficulty using replace in an automation rule.   Referencing this documentation Jira smart values - text fields   

• {{issue.summary.replace("Hello","Goodbye")}}

Actual Summary: [PDI-1234] - Testing

Desired Summary: [ER-1234] - Testing 

Attempting:  {{issue.summary.replace("PDI","ER")}}

Produced: 

Error while parsing additional fields. Not valid JSON.

[Bastien Delourmel (FMX) · Accepted solution]

Hi @Margaret Medon

Could you give us more details regarding your automation?

It worked well for me...

[Margaret Medon]

Thank you for responding, this is the complete rule in my sandbox. 

I am pretty confident my issue is the Edit Issue step because when I replaced the JSON with: 

{ "fields": { "summary": "woohoo! a new summary" } }

it worked.?

[Bastien Delourmel (FMX)]

Hey, why don't you select the field "Summary" instead of using the advanced function? As you are using a smart value :)

[David Friedrich]

@Margaret Medon 

in additional fields it needs to look like this (worked for me):
{
"fields": {
"summary": "{{issue.summary.replace("PDI","ER")}}"
}
}

But I agree with @Bastien Delourmel (FMX) . Much easier his way.

[Margaret Medon]

Awesome!   I didn't know that I could solve the problem using his suggestion. Thank you both so much! 

[David Friedrich]

Just to verify: You are certain "[PDI-1234] -" is part of the summary field value? Looks to me like that combination of issue.key and summary.

[Margaret Medon]

Yes!  the PDI # is an external number captured by an integration.

Thanks for the follow-up.