Using smart value list functions

There are a number of scenarios you'll come across when authoring automation rules, where you'll be presented with a list of items. This could be a list of versions or components attached to an issue, or a list of issues, such as all the sub-tasks of a particular issue.

Smart value functions for lists give us the ability to work with these lists of items by iterating over each item and being able to perform additional functions against attributes of the items. We also have access to functions that allow us to perform simple calculations against all the items in a list.

In this section, we'll take a look at the smart value functions available for accessing and formatting lists of items.

We'll cover examples of iterating over lists using smart values when we look at sending notifications via email and Slack in Chapter 4, Sending Automated Notifications.

Let's now take a look at the smart value functions available for...