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If you’ve configured your instance to create issues through email requests, then this article explains how to automatically assign newly created issues (through email requests) to a specific user - based on the keywords in the email subject/email body - using the Update Any Issue Field (JSU) post-function.

Instructions

Example use case: If the email has 'Dev' or 'QA' in the subject, the ticket has needs to be assigned to user1. If it has 'Deploy' or 'Prod', it goes needs to go to user2.

  1. Edit the workflow that is associated with your project and issuetypeissue type.

  2. Select the Create transition , and then select the Post Functions tab and click Add post function.

  3. Select “Update Any Issue Field (JSU)” post-function and click Add

  4. In this, add two Regular Expression pre-conditions: one One for Dev and the other another for QA and add the below regular expressions: 
    For Dev :

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    ^[\s\S]*Dev[\s\S]*$

    For QA

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    ^[\s\S]*QA[\s\S]*$
  5. Select "OR" in the pre-condition section . Select and select “True” under “Preconditions must be”.

  6. Select the Assignee field and add the account id of user1 in the Field Value. Refer to the screenshot below: 

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  7. Click “Add”.

  8. Similarly, add another Update Any Issue Field (JSU) post-function on the Create transition for 'Deploy', 'Prod' and add the account id of user2 in the Field Value and publish the workflow.

  9. If you want to verify the email body instead of subject, then replace Summary with Description in the Regular Expression pre-conditions.

  10. Place these post-functions below “Creates the issue originally.” built-in post-function on the create transition.

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