Issue Summary

When an issue contains Action items in the Description field and the Clone action in Jira automation is used, the newly cloned issue displays the Description field as a Bullet list rather than preserving the original Action items format

Steps to Reproduce

Create an automation as follows: 

• <<Manual Trigger>>
• <<For JQL Branch>>
• JQL query : key = xyz-123
• <<Clone Action>>
  • Project = Same
  • Issue Type = Same
  • Summary = CLONE - issue.summary

Expected Results

The Description field should have action items in the cloned issue

Actual Results

The Description field has bullet items in the cloned issue.

The JSON output of the issue shows

   "description": "* -Take action 1-\n* -Take action 2-\n* -Take action 3-",

This when copied over using {{issue.description}} is converted into bullet items.

Action items are represented as []
Using the Choose field to Set also does not translate [] to action items.
Manual Clone from Issue UI option uses Type taskList as payload to create a Clone.

Workaround

Currently, there is no known workaround for this behavior. A workaround will be added here when available