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Workflow Post Function - Add/Update Issue Property

Goal

This section shows the instructions to configure Workflow Post Function to perform a lookup during issue transition to add/update issue property.

Pre-requisites

✔️ Create a Jira Project
✔️ Jira Administrators permission

Configuration steps

1. Go to the workflow you wish to perform a lookup function.

2. Click on the edit button for the workflow you wish to amend

3. In your workflow page, click on the transition you wish to add lookup function. 

4. Click Add post function to insert a lookup post function 

5. Select Lookup Manager: Add/Update Issue Property to perform a lookup during issue transition

6. You should see the following fields

Source Field

The custom field which stores the lookup value to be searched in the lookup table.

Lookup Table

Lookup table which store the data set to be searched

Search Column

Column in which the lookup value will be searched

Matched Column

Column in which the matching value will be returned

Issue Property’s Entity Key

The key used to store the entity to issue

Action if No Records Matched

  1. Stop the current action

  2. Skip the update and continue

    • Do nothing 

  3. Default to a value

    • If no match found, the value will be set to a default value pre-defined  

Action if No Value in Source Field

  1. Stop the current action

  2. Skip the update and continue

    • Do nothing 

  3. Default to a value

    • If no value in source field, the value will be used to search in lookup table 

 

7. You can view the summary of the post function

 

8. Remember to publish the workflow

 

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