Automation With Custom Fields Filled Out

[Jonathan Forrester]

I wanted to ask everyone, is there a way to create automation where if a certain field (Text / Numbers) is filled out with anything then create a subtask. Ex. 4 Fields are specified so 4 sub tasks are created with that information.

Thanks! 

[Mike Rathwell · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jonathan Forrester 

There are a couple of ways you can do that (I use both depending on the scenario among a couple of others but this will get you on your way). Both involve plugins that you may or may not have.

• Automation for Jira: You can set it so, for a given trigger, look at the value of your field and create the subtask
• JMWE: This is my preferred approach; JMWE will create subtasks conditionally as part of a post function and populate fields either based on contents of other fields, parent fields, or groovy expressions.

[Jonathan Forrester]

Can it be ANY value or does it have to be specified?

[Mike Rathwell]

Using either of those methodologies, the test on the field can either be for specific content or ANY content (not null)

[Jonathan Forrester]

Perfect. Thank you for the help!