Create a value map using the cascade select configuration

Create a value map using the cascade select configuration

Description

Substitution variables are of great help when it comes to configuring field values for issues. Want to use a field value using a value map? For instance, you want the Jira user to see one value on the screen, but internally, you need a different value to be set in a custom field. How can this be done easily? This shows how to do this using a cascade select configuration in an non-typical way. CSOT-103 has more details on the configuration access capability use in this example.

Example of a value map

Key

Value

Key

Value

joe

joe@xxx.com

sally

sally@xxx.com

Steps

The following steps demonstrate how to configure Create on Transition, regex inspection of the project using a built-in function:

Step

Example

Step

Example

1

Create a cascade select custom field

  • Field is not intended for use

  • It is just for saving configuration values

2

Add a parent entry with the key value of your map

3

Create a child entry with the value part of your map

4

Repeat for each key and value pair

Use substitution values

Suppose your cascade select custom field is called: myMap

Example

Result

Example

Result

%values_myMap(joe)%

joe@xxx.com

%values_myMap(sally)%

sally@xxx.com

%values_myMap(%entry%)%

  • when using multiple issue creation

  • processing the sally entry

sally@xxx.com