Global settings

This page explains all the Issue Merger options under global settings.

Steps

  1. Choose Settings (cog icon) > Manage Apps

  2. Select Issue Merger > Configuration

  3. Adjust options to your needs

On that page, you can see three tabs. The first tab relates to merging settings. The second one applies merge issues screen. Third relates actions after merge.

Merging settings

  • Project roles - this field limit merge feature to selected project roles. When this field is empty all of users will be able to change.

  • Groups - here you can set which groups will be able to merge issues.

  • Description format - here you can define how descriptions will formatted on target issues.

  • Comment merge mode - here you can find possibility to make restrictions for comment merging. You can choose what kind of comment you want to merge and define visibility of this.

  • Comment format - here you can define how comments will be formated after merging.

  • Merge descriptions as comment - here you can define how descriptions will be formatted in comment section.

Merge issues screen

  • Merge multiple issues - after enabling this, you will be able to merge multiple issues into ticket(s)

  • Merge to multiple issues - after enabling this, you will be able to merge issues into multiple tickets

  • Merge also - here you can choose fields that will be easy accessible for users. We recommend that you choose the most frequently merged ones. When you will chose fields to this inline it will disappear from inline "Select fields to merge".

  • Actions after merge - here you are able to set actions which will be available after merging. Options should be available in the dialog after you set them.

Actions after merge

  • Link issues - When set, merged issues will be automatically linked to each other. One will be set on source issue(s). The opposite link will be set on target issue.

  • Add comment to source issue - here you can write custom comment which be added to source issue after successful merge.

  • Add comment to target issue - here you can write custom comment which be added to target issue after successful merge.

  • Comment Date - here you can add the merged comment with the current date. Otherwise, the date of the comment when it was added to source issue will appear.

  • Add reporter to watchers - here you can add a reporter as a watcher.

  • Disable notification during merging - here you can disable the notifications during merging process.

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