Automation basics
Understand the general concepts and best practices of automation in Atlassian cloud products.
You can use smart values to access and manipulate text strings, and work with any text field type, such as summary or description, as well as custom text fields.
These smart values can also be used on issue sub-attributes, such as {{issue.reporter.displayName}}.
View the smart values available to manipulate text strings.
Smart values can be used to send a Slack message with an abbreviated issue description.
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{{issue.description.abbreviate(200)}}
This smart value results in the first 200 characters of the issue description followed by ....
These functions can also be used in conditions, for example, {{issue.Field Name.isNumeric}} will sum up a text field if it is a number.
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