Thanks for raising the question in the community.
The use case you mention can be implemented as follows:
replica.labels = issue.labels
Here you will have to map the incoming label to the category
An example where there is only one label to process
def labelMap = [
"Incoming Label 1" : "Category 1",
"Incoming Label 2" : "Category 2",
"Incoming Label 3" : "Category 3",
]
/*
** Map the label to the target category, and revert to default if not found
** replica.labels is an array of labels
** replica.labels.first is the first label in the array
** replica.labels.first.label is the string that represents the label itself
** replica.labels?.first?.label
** the question marks avoid nullpointerexceptions
*/
def firstLabel = replica.labels?.first?.label
/*
** if the firstlabel is not found in the labelMap, default to DefaultCategory
*/
def targetCategory = labelMap[firstLabel] ?: "DefaultCategory"
/*
** Assign the found label to the category drop down custom field
*/
issue.customFields."Category".value = targetCategory
Let me know if this helps
Thanks very much for this, Francis! I will give this a try.
Hi user-50445
What if there were multiple labels in an issue (which is often the case), and I needed to look for one particular label from the array so that I could map that to our category?
You can traverse the labels using something like
def targetLabel = replica.labels.find { it.label == "MyLabel" }
def targetCategory = labelMap[targetLabel] ?: "DefaultCategory"
If you provide some more details, we can provide some more examples
We're using Jira Software Cloud and Exalate. Is there a way to map labels (built-in field) and categories (custom field) between two Jira instances? We'd like to sync issues from one external Jira instance where they don't use our custom-field categories, and map the labels they use to our categories.