Connect a project to itself, to calculate a field value

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Originally asked by Dimitri Bigler on 30 March 2021 (original question)

Hello,

We are currently trying to automatically calculate a Field called “RPN”. This field is calculated like this (occurence * severity).

This usecase is easy to do, if you calculate this field across 2 different project. Our usecase would be to connect an Issue with itself (localproject connected with localproject). Means we don´t want to create a new Issue in the project, we want to establish a connection from issue ABC-12 to ABC-12.

That way our Outgoing sync could be:

replica.customFields.“occurence” = issue.customFields.“occurence”
replica.customFields.“severity” = issue.customFields.“severity”

And our Incomming sync could be:

issue.customFields.“RPN”.value = (replica.customFields.“occurence”.value * replica.customFields.“severity”.value)

Right now exalate always wants to create a new issue, it seems it is not possible to connect an issue to itself. Did someone already do it?

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Answer by Francis Martens (Exalate) on 31 March 2021

This is not supported by Exalate. I gave it a quick try (there could be a path) but it triggers a number of problems.

You would be better of to use an add-on like scriptrunner to implement this type of usecases.

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