Adding Basic Pattern Mappings Guidelines

Field Parsing Logic

Let's get familiar with the pattern syntax.

• The pattern must always contain the string "{value}"

• Pattern may optionally contain a prefix and/or a suffix

• The plugin uses regex matching in the backend. Based on prefix and suffix tries to pick the relevant string from the Source Fielde.

• The "{value}" string part will be identified and populated to the corresponding custom field

• If a suffix is not provided, then only the current line would be matched. By providing a suffix you may match multi lines.

• Casing and space chars in prefix/suffix need an exact match with the comment.

• It is okay to add multiple mappings for the same Custom Field. You may leverage this to handle Casing/Space chars.

Lets look at an example to see the plugin in Action

Imagine we have added a pattern mapping as shown below:

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Now let's add the following Sample Comment to the Jira Issue: 

username=Jira-ADMIN
Address:5th Floor, Tower ‘X’,
Silver Enclave,
Airport Road, Bengaluru;
Level::7
Instance=https://mgtechsoft.atlassian.net
Begin Time=25/Aug/22 10:55 AM

Based on the above mappings the following would happen:

• Custom field 'Employee Name' is populated with value 'Jira-ADMIN'

• 'Employee Address' field is populated with value '5th Floor, Tower ‘X’,Silver Enclave,Airport Road, Bengaluru'

• 'Total Score' field is populated with '7'

• 'Server URL' field gets updated as 'https://mgtechsoft.atlassian.net'

• The 'Actual Start Date' field gets updated as '25/Aug/22 10:55 AM'

• Lastly the 'Last Comment Field' is populated with the whole of the comment text. ( You may use this trick to maintain a custom field which stores the Last Comment added to issue  )