Referred Issues

This workflow automatically adds a refers to link when another issue is mentioned by its Id in a comment or description.

File Name	jetbrains-youtrack-referredIssues
Auto-attached	no
Rules	Add 'refers to' link if issue ids mentioned in comment/description (stateless)

Use Case

This workflow helps you automate the creation of links between related issues.

Workflow Rules

This rule checks the description and comment for an issue for references to other issues. When one or more references are found, the issues are added as refers to links.

Add 'refers to' link if issue ids mentioned in comment/description

rule Add 'refers to' link if issue ids mentioned in comment/description

when comments.added.isNotEmpty || description.changed {
    var text = " ";
    var issueID = " ";
    var startID = 0;
    var referringIssue;
    var messageText = " ";
    var issueNumber= " ";
    var curNumber = " ";
    var cursor = 0;
    var separators = " ,;.:\"()?!<>#+|/[]\t\n\r";
    var symbol = " ";

    if (description.changed) {
        text = description.lowerCase;
    } else if (comments.added.isNotEmpty) {
        text = comments.added.first.text.lowerCase;
    }

    while (startID != -1) {
        startID = text.indexOf(project.shortName.lowerCase + "-", startID, opts);

        if (startID == -1) {
            break;
        }

        if (startID > 0 && !separators.contains(text.substring(startID -1, startID), opts)){
            text = text.substring(startID + 1);
            continue;
        }

        issueNumber = text.substring(startID + project.shortName.length + "-".length);
        while (cursor < 10) {
            symbol = issueNumber.substring(cursor, cursor + 1);
            if (separators.contains(symbol, opts)) {
                break;
            }
            curNumber = curNumber + symbol;
            cursor++;
        }

        issueID = project.shortName + "-" + curNumber;
        text = text.substring(startID + issueID.length);

        if (curNumber.is(numeric)) {
            referringIssue = loggedInUser.getIssues(project, "#" + issueID);
            if (referringIssue.isNotEmpty && referringIssue.first == referringIssue.last) {
                refers to.add(referringIssue.first);

               if (messageText.isNotEmpty) {
                    messageText = messageText + ",";
                }
                messageText = messageText + referringIssue.first.getId();
            }
        }
    }

    if (messageText.isNotEmpty) {
        message(l10n ( Automatically added 'refers to' {messageText} links. ));
    }
}

Last modified: 2 February 2017