Is there a plugin/add-on to bulk append custom fields for JIRA cloud?

[Frederik Bender]

Hi, I have been searching this forum but couldn´t find a proper answer to my problem. We are using JIRA cloud for writing software requirements for a medical product, using Kanban Boards. We have a custom field of type Checkbox with name "Product Version". Values of that custom field are e.g. "1.0", "1.1", etc. For each new product version, we extend the values of the custom field.

Each issue (requirment) that is part of a certain product version will have a checkmark for that value. So, for example, if a new requirments is introduced with version 1.1, it will have a checkmark for Product Version 1.1 and 1.2, but not for 1.0.

The problem is, if we define a new product version, we need to  add a new version value to that Custom Field and need to check all requirments that are part of that version. So, e.g., taking tee previous field, we would add 1.3 to the option of the Custom Fields and check the 1.3 value for the requirment. Since there are many requriements and we add new version regularily, we cannot do this manually. 

I therefore would like to bulk append the Custom Field, meaning adding a version checkmark without changing the currently set checkmarks for other versions. I believe this is not possible in JIRA Cloud. Is there any plugin or add-on to do that?

Thanks, Frederik

[somethingblue]

Hi Frederick,

It looks like this may be possible with ScriptRunner.   Take a look at the Community post A way to bulk copy custom field values from one custom field to another:

Try the copy custom field values script from the script runner plugin. This will handle a bunch of conversions, and doesn't need any downtime. So you would create a new field, copy the values, delete the old field, and optionally rename the new field.

Some conversions you can do by changing the database customfieldtype table, but number to text is not one of those, because the storage is different.

Cheers,

Branden