Copy dependent dropdown values between projects

[Aurora Romanucci]

Hi Community,

I need to copy the values selected in a dependent dropdown from a Jira Service Management project to a Jira project.

I work with Jira Cloud, and both boards are team-managed. The source and target issue types are custom, but the dependent dropdown field is the same custom field selected from the ones available in my Org.

I already have an automation that works with many fields, but not the dependent dropdowns (obviously). Do you have any ideas on how to address this problem?

[Tomislav Tobijas · Accepted solution]

Hi @Aurora Romanucci ,

When you say 'dependent dropdown' do you mean Jira cascading field?

Also, if I got you right, you would like to copy values from this field from team-managed JSM project to team-managed Jira project?

Cheers,
Tom

[Aurora Romanucci]

Hi @Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_

yes, this is my field:

It has multiple first-level options, each with multiple second-level options.

I also confirm that the automation needs to copy values from a team-managed JSM project to a team-managed Jira project. The field is configured as a custom company-managed field and I selected the same custom field in both projects.

Cheers,

Aurora

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Hi @Aurora Romanucci ,

For this, you can use Edit issue action together with advanced editing using JSON.

Basically, you can use this code block to copy field values from one issue to another.
In the end, this is how it can look like. Note that my cascading field is named "Cascading field".

Finally, I've here just copied values from one issue to all linked issues (which are in another project), but you can configure branching and everything else according to your requirements.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Tobi

[Aurora Romanucci]

Hi @Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_

I tried using the JSON that you suggested (with my field configured), and it worked! Thank you!