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The dreaded "Clone" in Jira

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Case: We clone template issues, as our work is repetitive, and get “clone” in the summary and it makes it hard to read. Built-In Jira allows you to remove "Clone" from the story you are cloning, but if you are also copying the sub-tasks there is not the option to remove it. There are ways to turn this off in Jira Server, but I could not find it in Jira cloud.

Solution:

Jira - Settings - Add-Ons - ScriptRunner - Escalation Service

The Escalation Service called: Remove Clone In Summary
As this user: (myself)
Checked - enabled
On this schedule: Every Hour
For first 50 results returned by this query: Project in (pipe) and Summary ~ "CLONE"

Will run this code: 

// check if issue.fields.summary looks like "CLONE -"
def updatedSummary =""
if (issue.fields.summary.startsWith("CLONE -")) {
    //if so, modify issue.fields.summary to not suck.
    updatedSummary = issue.fields.summary.replace("CLONE -", "")
    //update it.
    def result = put('/rest/api/2/issue/' + issue.key)
            .header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
            .body([
            fields: [
                 summary: updatedSummary
            ]
    ])
            .asString()
    if (result.status == 204) {
        // If you want to leave a comment, you can add this
        //def commentResp = post("/rest/api/2/issue/${issue.key}/comment")
        //    .header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
        //    .body([
        //    body: """The ScriptRunner Bot has updated the description of ${issue.key} due to the name looking like CLONE -"""
        //])
        return "Updated summary of ${issue.key}"
    } else {
        return "Failed to update: ${issue.key}. " + "${result.status}: ${result.body}"
    }

}

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