Automate multiple child tasks to epic when created

[Jeff Hildenbrand]

Morning,

I am having issues automating the creation of child tasks to an Epic once its created. Every time I try this it seems to make the Epic the child of the task and not the other way around any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Current automation is this:

To me the rules look appropriate as this seems to indicate that the new task will be the child of the most recently created issue which would be the Epic. but as you can see below it makes the Task the parent instead:

[Trudy Claspill]

You should not be using the Link Issue action. That is generic issue linking functionality. The link between an Epic and its child issue is a special type of link.

It appears that you are working with issues in a Team Managed project. Is that correct?

If it is, what you need to do is during your child issue creation you have to set the Parent field. Automation rules do not currently let you pick that field from the field list, so you have to use the More Options > Advanced Fields feature to set that field, as described in the response on this post.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Automation-for-Jira-NextGen-Create-set-of-tasks-when-epic-is/qaq-p/1321233

Credit to @Ibrahim Al-Taie