Create Jira Issues Based on Project Category

[Alex Sanda]

Hello, 

I am looking for a way to automatically create multiple stories upon the creation of a project within a certain category. 

I tried it using Automation as follows but it does not work. The Audit log says "NO ACTIONS PERFORMED" when creating a new project in the "Engineering" category:

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Alex Sanda 

I believe with that trigger you may use the {{project}} smart value.  Here are the documented attributes for it:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/smart-values-projects/

Kind regards,
Bill

[Alex Sanda]

Hi @Bill Sheboy , 

I have already read the documentation for {{project}} but could not find a smart value for Project Category.

Thanks, 

Alex

[Bill Sheboy]

According to this post from Atlassian Support, the smart value is projectCategory for an issue, as you noted.  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/What-is-the-smart-value-for-project-category/qaq-p/1457879

So perhaps try this for that trigger based only on the project:

{{project.projectCategory.name}}

I currently have no categories defined in my instance so I am unable to test this.

If that does not work, and you are on a paid license, please work with your site admin to submit a support ticket to Atlassian for ideas to try: https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/

[Max Foerster - K15t]

Hey @Alex Sanda ,

a quick thought after I was looking at the configuration. You're are checking an issue field for the project category. But there are no issues to check. Could that maybe be the mistake in the configuration here? Because then I can understand that no actions are performed. :) Maybe it's smarter (if you need to match criteria) to use a JQL search instead and perform actions if the project you just created is returned.

Best, Max

[Alex Sanda]

Thank you for the answer, I understand the problem here.

Is there any way to match the Category at the project level, I need the stories to be automatically created once the new project is created in that category?