Automation to Create Task and Sub-Task under it when Epic is created

[Arun Unnikrishnan]

I am trying to build an automation to standardize the out process. 

When an Epic is created, 

Automatically create Task 01, Task 02 under the Epic 

And Create SubTask 01 and SubTask 02 under Task 01 

SubTask 03 and SubTask 04 under Task 02

Below is what I tried but not able to achieve what i want. The task and Sub-task is getting created under the epic. I am aware that I can achieve this using two automations but I would like to know if this can be done using a single automation. 

Nb: have already gone through some older posts in community and that didn't help. 

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Arun Unnikrishnan 

You need to change your For Each branch from "Current Issue" to "Most Recently Created Issue".

Creating a new issue within a rule does not automatically make it the "current issue" (the issue upon which the rule will operate). So you need to change the focus of the rule to that newly created issue using the "most recently created issue" option.

[Arun Unnikrishnan]

Thanks @Trudy Claspill 

Lets say the automation ran and created the Task 01, now the the rule will check for the Most Recently created issue and create sub-task under it. Fair enough. 

What if soon after Task 01, someone manually creates another issue (could be task or sub-task)x, will this affect the automation? Asking this since 'Most recently created issue' will only only for the issues created using automation OR will check for all issues irrespective of who created it. 

[Trudy Claspill]

"Most recently created issue" is limited to the context of the Automation Rule's current execution. It doesn't consider issues created in other ways; by users, by other automation Rules, by integrations with other tools.

[Arun Unnikrishnan]

Thanks for the clarification @Trudy Claspill