Atuomation: number of blocked issues not in Done is higher than 0 then skip action

[Mateja Leskovec]

Hello, we have the following automation in place:

But if we have multiple blockers, completing just one triggers the automation. Is there any way we could modify the automation that all the blockers need to be completed before the rule is executed?

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Mateja Leskovec 

Within the branch after the Status condition add a Lookup Issues action with the JQL:

issue in linkedIssues("{{issue.key}}", "is blocked by") and statusCategory != Done

That will find all the issues linked by "is blocked by" to the blocked issue, where the blocking issue is not in a status in the Done Status Category.

Then add a Smart Value to confirm that no issues were found by that action.

If this condition fails, then the blocked issue has blockers that are not "done", and the branch will stop processing that issue and move on to checking the next linked/blocked issue of the trigger issue.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Mateja Leskovec 

Yes, and...to Trudy's suggestion: you could also try using the same JQL with the Related Issues Condition to check there are no issues matching the criteria:

https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-automation-conditions/#Related-issues

Kind regards,
Bill