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title: "Copy field value to linked issues"
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Are you using JMWE for Cloud and want to learn how to use this post-function? Head to our documentation  here . Documentation for   is available  here . A workflow post-function that copies the value(s) of a selected field into the same field of all issues linked to the current issue through a selected link type. This  post-function does not work with  remote links  (links to Jira issues residing on another Jira instance/server). To add the 'Copy field value to linked issues' post-function to a transition: Click  Edit  for the workflow that has the transition you wish to configure the post-function on. In the Workflow Designer, select the transition. Click on  Post Functions   in the properties panel. Click on  Add   post function . Select  Copy field value to linked issues  from the list of post-functions. Click on  Add   to add the post-function on the transition. Select the field from the  Field  drop-down. Select the link from the   Issue Link   drop-down, or leave it as   Any   for any link type other than Issue/Subtask, Epic/Story and   Jira Portfolio hierarchy. Select the options provided to add required parameters. Click on  Add  to add the post-function to the transition. Related links : For information on where the post-function needs to be placed on a transition, see  Placing post-functions on a transition . Refer to the  Use cases for post-functions  page for use cases for this post-function. When you add this post-function to a transition and trigger the transition, the add-on copies the value(s) of the selected field into the same field of all issues linked to the current issue through the selected link type. "Relates to" link type Beware of the default "relates to" link type, which can cause confusion. The problem stems from the fact that "relates to" is both the  inward   direction  and the  outward direction  of the "Relates" link type. We recommend that you rename one of the directions to "is related to" to avoid confusion. This can be done on the Issue Linking Jira admin page. Options  Copy only if not set Copies the value(s) of the selected field into the same field of all the linked issues, only when the field is empty on the linked issue(s). Ignore empty values Will not set (clear) the selected field of the linked issues, if the value from the current issue is empty or null. Add source value(s) to destination field Appends the value(s) of the selected field to the same field of all the linked issues. This is applicable only to multi-valued fields. Create missing value(s) Allows automatically creating any missing value(s) while copying values that do not exist in the destination issue's project and hence should be created from the source issue's project. This is applicable only to Affects Version/s, Fix Version/s, Single version and Multi-version picker type custom fields, Components, Radio buttons, Checkboxes, Single select and Multi-select list type custom fields. Run As Run as user Any user specified in this field will be the author of the  copy  performed by the post-function. Leave it blank for the current user to be the author. Conditional execution To execute this post-function based on the result of a groovy expression see  Conditional execution/validation using a Groovy expression . Note that you can use this function to copy a field from, The parent issue of a sub-task by using the built-in  is Parent of  link type and vice versa using the  is subtask of  link type The Epic of an issue by using the built-in  is Epic of  link type and vice-versa using the  has Epic of  link type. Error Handling By default, all errors (Java Exceptions) raised by this post-function, including those raised by custom Groovy scripts, will be logged in the  JIRA log file  but will not be reported to the user and will not prevent the transition from completing.  However, when designing new workflows or troubleshooting them, it is more convenient to be notified immediately of any such error during the execution of the transition. For  example on the production  Jira instances  you might want to show errors  only for the post-function(s) being worked on , in order to avoid disrupting other workflows.  To make errors  raised by the  current  post-function  prevent the transition from completing and show the error in the browser, select  Make transition fail when an error occurs in this post-function . If you want to show all the errors, either  only to the admins  or to  all users , configure the option globally  on the  JMWE configuration page . For example,  o n   development and staging   Jira instances, you can activate error reporting for  all   JMWE post-functions , to display all the errors and it is recommended to do so, and on production Jira instances you might want to activate error reporting only to administrators so that they can be made aware of configuration errors. When the option is selected on a post-function, it overrides the configuration  on the  JMWE configuration page .