Automations: Use Parent Field of Issue for Conditions

[Sarah Alaghbari]

I am writing a rule where an Issue should automatically inherit its parent's components.

So far, this works, except for the case of an issue having no parent (it throws an error then). In order to avoid this, I would like to check beforehand if the parent field is not empty and only execute the action then. Unfortunately, Parent doesn't seem to be a valid field inside Issue here.

Am I missing anything?

[Antuan Sammak · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sarah Alaghbari 

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

you would need to change the condition type you selected from "issue fields condition" to "related issues condition" 

[Sarah Alaghbari]

Okay wow, this does make a lot of sense! I just blindly selected the condition type suggested to me without reconsidering 😬

Works perfectly, thanks!