Expansion Automation - History Description Field

[Bruno Goncalves de Meneses]

I am having difficulty creating an automation in the Description field for story items, bugs, and improvements in Jira, using the expansion mode, which I activate using the "/" function and search for the word 'expand'.

The idea is that when creating automation, the Description field should already display the structure as shown in the attached example, where clicking on the PARENT name expands the items nested within as children, maintaining the same formatting as the example.

Could you guide me on how or the best way to do this in Jira using automation?

Thank you.

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Bruno Goncalves de Meneses 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Based on the documentation for text formatting:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/jira-cloud-text-editor-formatting-1375863133.html

...I don't see any markup code provided for inserting an Expand macro into a Paragraph field through Automation Rules.

This same question has been discussed in the following posts:

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Macros-in-Jira-Automation/qaq-p/2079841
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Expand-Macro-in-JIRA-description/qaq-p/2295875
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Wrapping-issue-description-inside-of-Expand-via-automation-rule/qaq-p/2182194