Jira automation - create a story and related issues

[Bryce Roessner]

We are trying to standardize issues and naming within one of our software projects using a manual automation trigger on an Epic that created stories with the appropriate parent (epic). This is working

What I am having an issue with, is that one of the Stories, is not work completed by that software team. It belongs on a different Jira board.

I'd like for the automation to create a Story (call it story-1) in the current project. Then create 3 stories in a different software project that are linked to story-1.

If I use 'Trigger Issue' - all the stories link to the Epic. I'm open to suggestions, but essentially, just need a story on the same project where the automation was triggered, and some type of links on another software project.

[Mark Segall · Accepted solution]

Hi @Bryce Roessner and welcome to the community!

On your Create Issue actions for those stories you want created in a separate project, you can change the project value from "Same Project" to the desired target project. 

As for linking, I would take the following steps:

1. After your first Create Issue component, add a Create Variable action. For this example, I'll set it like this:
   1. Variable Name: varLink
   2. Smart Value: {{createdIssue.key}}
2. On each of your subsequent Create Issue components add the Linked Issues field, set the desired link type and use {{varLink}} for what it should link to

[Bryce Roessner]

Thank you @Mark Segall! That was the solution I was after. I appreciate your help!