Hi all,
I'm trying to configure the following automation in Jira:
- If a task is created with a certain word in the summary → move it to a specific parent (+ send an email)
We are pretty new to Jira and had this automation in our previous software.
Third party programs create 'tasks' in our Jira project, and currently we manually move it to the correct parent.
Since these tasks all contain specific keywords, we feel like this could be automated pretty easily, but looking through the automations I'm unable to figure out how to change the value of the parent.
Would very much appreciate the help, or just know if it's not possible.
Thanks!
Hi @Robin Van Noorwege -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!
For a question like this, context is important for the community to help. Please post the following:
Until we see those...
With the Edit Issue action, you may select the Parent field and set it to specific issue, and then use the Send Email action to send the notification.
Kind regards,
Bill
Hi Bill,
Thank you for your reply.
I have reverted the flow back to the basics, which is currently this:
What I don't understand is how I can target a specific a parent here?
I have used the 'send email' action in other flows and understand this, so just leaving it out atm.
The Project Type is: Jira - Business project.
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Thanks for those rule images, and...
When using the Issue Created trigger, I recommend always adding the Re-fetch Issue action immediately after it. That trigger can fire so quickly that some data may not be available to the rule yet, causing weird symptoms and rule errors. The re-fetch will slow the rule down a bit, reloading the data before proceeding.
Next, there are two ways to set the Parent to a specific issue: smart values and JSON. Let's do the first one using a Created Variable.
Please try that and let me know what happens. Thanks!
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Hi Bill,
I implemented the automation, but it seems it stops at the create variable part.
The flow I created:
Variable:
Edit:
I tried removing the re-fetch part, but it doesn't seem to have an impact.
Any idea?
Thanks,
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Please expand all the sections in the audit log details and repost the image. Is suspect Summary did not exactly match "CHANGE USER" (including the case).
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