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How to submit a form which creates an Epic and child work items?

Anthony Carluccio
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August 22, 2025

After browsing through forums it seems this should be possible, but I have created a form which upon submission will create an epic. 

I want to then use automations to create child work items under that epic. 

The problem is, based on what I currently have, is the child work item gets created but doesn't have the epic as the parent. 

Zight 2025-8-22 at 10.16.51 AM

When I attempt to set the epic as the triggering work item, it doesn't seem to go through. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

 

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Duc Thang TRAN
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August 22, 2025

Hello @Anthony Carluccio 

The probleme is from the last action “Edit issue” is applied to your Epic, not to the last created Task.
To fix this, in the “Create issue” action you can set the field Parent = Trigger issue.

 

Hope this can help :)

Anthony Carluccio
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August 22, 2025

This did work, thank you! I'm not sure why but I tried this configuration first and the child issue wasn't being created. 

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