How to have labels inherited to two levels down

[Heather Bohler]

I have an epic that we clone and reuse a couple of times a year. I have it clone the epic, tasks, and subtasks (3 levels of hierarchy).

I have created an automation that when the label is changed in the epic the child tasks will automatically update to the new label. I want when the child tasks automatically update for it to trigger their child sub-tasks to also update with the new label. Is there a way to do that? I have tried creating a new branch, and also a separate automation but it doesn't seem to be working. 

[Karan Sachdev · Accepted solution]

Hey @Heather Bohler

You may create a simple rule like this one:

Make sure to check the box that says allow actions from automation rules to trigger this rule. This way, when you update the labels on the epic, the rule will update the labels from Epic to Story. Updating the labels on the Story should trigger the rule again and copy the labels to the Subtasks.

Thanks!

[Heather Bohler]

that check box was what I was missing! Thank you so much

[Valerie Knapp]

Hi @Heather Bohler , thanks for your question.

Please can you share the Automation rule and audit log so we can see what you already have and are trying?

I would have thought something like this would work but if you have already tried, we can rule out what isn't working to try to help you find something that will.

Cheers