Issue Summary

Whenever we attempt to generate and run automation to edit the priority field and if this field is NULL, automation is ignoring the field and not setting it.

This is reproducible on Data Center: (yes)

Steps to Reproduce

• Update the priority field of any issue to NULL in DB

  update jiraissue 
  set priority = null 
  where id = <MY_ISSUE_ID>;
  

• Create a simple automation:
  • Trigger: When: Issue commented
  • Action: Edit field - Priority, then select the desired priority
    
  • Visit the issue where you updated the priority in step 1 in DB and then place a comment.

Expected Results

As a Jira admin I expect the automation to set the priority without failing or generating errors

Actual Results

Workaround

Based on some business needs may not be possible to update the priority field in jiraissue table in DB before running the automation, hence there is no useful workaround at moment, but even so sharing this possibility here.

• Perform the select below to raise an existing priority:

  select id, pname from priority p ;
  

• Once the id was raised, then update the jiraissue table to set the priority

  update jiraissue 
  set priority = <MY_PRIORITY_ID>
  where id = <MY_ISSUE_ID>;
  

• Rerun the automation