How to set an automation to only transition a work item when all Fix Versions are released

[brian_kurzius]

We frequently have a single work item attached to multiple Fix Versions, so we only want a ticket transition when all Fix Versions have been RELEASED. This is the current approach but it doesn't work:

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @brian_kurzius 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

I think instead of that Advanced Compare condition that you have highlighted you need to use this instead.

If any of the issues in the released version are also in a version that is not released, then this condition will fail and the rest of the steps will not be executed for that issue.

[brian_kurzius]

Works great - thank you Trudy!

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @brian_kurzius -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

The {{issue.fixVersions}} smart value is a list, and thus your condition could be comparing something like this to true:

true, false, true, true

In your condition, you could collapse all of the version states together with the distinct list function so only one value of each type is returned for the comparison:

{{issue.fixVersions.released.distinct}}

And just to confirm...this will help manage transitioning for this rule.  This will not prevent a person (or rule) from performing the transition otherwise.

When you want to prevent the transition by any method unless the condition is met, another approach would be needed using a workflow validator.

Kind regards,
Bill

[brian_kurzius]

thanks Bill - the answer from Trudy was a bit easier to follow since i'm pretty new to automations :-)