I would like to set alert flag for inter project dependent user stories.

[M 456]

Here are two Projects, Project A and Project B.

Project A has User story A1 which has a dependency on User Story B1 from project B.

That means User story A1 will wait for the inputs from User Story B1.

Project B : User Story B1 (Completed) --> Project A : User Story A1(Will start)

Now I would like to set up a flag 5 days before as a alert when the start date for User Story A1 is approaching.  This will be Yellow flag as alert.(Flag 1)

 Orange flag(flag 2)  for 3 days remaining to start the User Story A1. 

Red flag (flag 3)for 1 day remaining to start the User story A1 to start on,

This will notify the both the project managers and program manager and all stakeholders that these are blockers .

Please let me know how to to automation on setting these flags and notify the required stakeholders as well for the show stopper in this situation if no action is taken.

[Mark Segall]

Hi @M 456 and welcome to the community!

You could do something like this (assuming you're manually setting the start date on the issues):

Flag Field

You'll want to create a custom field that will provide the desired indicators (You can set emojis as the options)

AUTOMATION

You'll want to create a rule that runs daily.  I would set it up like this:

• TRIGGER: Scheduled (No JQL)
• BRANCH:
  We'll first look for issues that are 5 days out:
  

  • StatusCategory = "To Do" AND issueLinkType = "is blocked by" AND start >= startOfDay(3) AND start < startOfDay(6)

  • Edit Issue (Your Custom Flag Field)
• BRANCH:
  We'll first look for issues that are 5 days out:
  

  • StatusCategory = "To Do" AND issueLinkType = "is blocked by" AND start >= startOfDay(1) AND start < startOfDay(4)

  • Edit Issue (Your Custom Flag Field)
• BRANCH:
  We'll first look for issues that are 5 days out:
  

  • StatusCategory = "To Do" AND issueLinkType = "is blocked by" AND start >= startOfDay() AND start < startOfDay(1)

  • Edit Issue (Your Custom Flag Field)