How to automatically assign dates inherited from tickets to an Epic ?

[Aline Veyradier]

Hello,

I want to automatically assign the earliest startdate and most recent end dates of child issues to an Epic.

I'd like to achieve the result shown below (see screenshot), but by filling Start date and Due date fields.

I am trying something with {{issue.epic.endDate.max}} and {{issue.epic.startDate.min}} 

but it doesn't work.

Thanks for your help

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Aline Veyradier 

It sounds like you are working with an Automation Rule. Please show us screen images of the rule you have constructed, and the details of the step where you are trying to set the start and end date in the Epic.

There are several posts that discuss setting the dates in Epics based on the dates in the child issues. Perhaps you can extrapolate your solution from the information provided in those posts.

https://support.atlassian.com/automation/kb/how-to-update-parent-issue-start-date-and-due-date-from-child-issues/

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Cloud-Admins-discussions/Set-Epic-Start-and-Due-Date-to-earliest-latest-Child-Dates/td-p/2353100

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-questions/Parent-epic-set-start-and-due-date-on-base-of-child-tasks/qaq-p/2299980

[Aline Veyradier]

Thank you, @Trudy Claspill !

I've tried this solution : https://support.atlassian.com/automation/kb/how-to-update-parent-issue-start-date-and-due-date-from-child-issues/

but it's hard to know if it's working, as there seems to be a problem with the automations at the moment.

I'll check it out tomorrow.

[Aline Veyradier]

Hello @Trudy Claspill ,

It worked, but I had to modify the field {{lookupIssues.duedate.max}} and remove the space between "due" and "date" as already mentioned in another post (https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Cloud-Admins-discussions/Set-Epic-Start-and-Due-Date-to-earliest-latest-Child-Dates/m-p/2688070#M11847)

Thank you so much for your valuable advice, which has saved me an enormous amount of time ! 

Best regards 

Aline

[John Funk]

Hi Aline,

What is triggering the automation? You probably want to use {{issue.parent.End date.max}} but it will depend on the actual rule. 

[Aline Veyradier]

Hello @John Funk

I'm thinking of using  Manually triggered or Scheduled.

[John Funk]

But what what issue would it trigger on? Or would be in the JQL of the scheduled trigger?