Next-gen Automation: Target epic's linked issue correctly if there are multiple linked issues

[Daniel]

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[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Daniel -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

If I am understanding your use case correctly...

First thing, nextgen (now called Team-Managed Projects) cannot have multiple boards yet.  That means you are talking about linking/updating issues in different projects and that requires a global / multi-project rule.  Correct?

Next, to do what you ask you could use an advanced JQL statement to find your issue for the link: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/advanced-search-reference-jql-functions/#Advancedsearchingfunctionsreference-linkedIssueslinkedIssues--

For example, and I am assuming your trigger issue is the standard issue in Board A:

issue IN linkedIssues( {{triggerIssue.parent}} , "clones") OR issue IN linkedIssues( {{triggerIssue.parent}} , "is cloned by")

Kind regards,
Bill

[Daniel]

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[Bill Sheboy]

Hi, Daniel.

Yup, I got what you were trying to accomplish, and sorry I didn't clarify my suggestion better.  The issuelinks from the Parent have only the key, and not the rest of their data, such as linktype.  If all of that data was present, you could use list filtering to do what you asked.

As that is not possible, I was suggesting gathering the issues using JQL on the trigger issue key and the link type you want (perhaps with Lookup Issues).  And then use the results to get the specific epic you want for the link.

Kind regards,
Bill