Jira Automation Rule

[Vinay Kumar Murjiani]

I’m setting up a new rule in Jira automation to trigger when a new issue of type "Story" is created and then edit the "description" field. This rule should apply only to newly created stories, and I want to ensure that the description field is not edited when cloning existing tickets.

My current rule: 

When issue created - Trigger

Issue type equals story - If condition 

Then edit the issue field (description)

I know I have to add to add another If condition to ensure that when the issue is cloned, do not edit the description field in that cloned story. Can you help me to figure out how I can do that?

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Vinay Kumar Murjiani 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

The only way to know that an issue might have been created using the Clone process is if the new issue has a "clones" link to the original issue. Since links can be added and removed by users, there is no guarantee that an issue created by Cloning will have that link, nor that an issue that has such a link was actually created using a Clone process.

If you want to add a condition like that you could use the Related Issues condition:

[Vinay Kumar Murjiani]

Thank you

[Trudy Claspill]

You're welcome.

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[GAY LEE HOLLON]

If you want to keep old description and add new verbiage, this is what we use