How to update the Epic status when first story of the Epic is transitioned

[Alicia Morgan]

New to automation however looking for logic to transition the Epic status field when the first story is moved from To Do to In Progress. 

Can someone help me with this logic?

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Alicia Morgan 

Welcome to the Atlassian community!

The basic rule structure would be like this:

TRIGGER: issue transitioned
-- Destination Status is "In Progress"
CONDITION: issue type is not Epic and issue type is not subtask
BRANCH: Branch Rule/Related Issues
-- Type of related issue: Epic (parent)
-- CONDITION: Status is To Do
-- ACTION: Transition issue to In Progress 

[Alicia Morgan]

Thank you @Trudy Claspill . Is there a way to update the state date field once the Epic is transitioned to In Progress?

[Trudy Claspill]

Add another action in the For Epic (parent) block to Edit Issue. You can update fields using that action.