Setting up automation when creating a new project with a certain name

[Janne Jääskä]

I'm not looking for solutions that utilize a plugin to Jira, only solutions in native Jira Software Cloud Premium.

I would like to create a global automation rule that, upon project creation, creates a list of predefined issues. The question is: How to create an automation that triggers only for certain projects?

-> I would like to define a project name prefix, e.g. "CP:*", that would be the trigger to create the aforementioned group of issues (Epics, tasks, sub-tasks) to the newly created project.

An example:

• I create a company-managed software project with the name "CP: testproject1"
• I select the project to copy settings from an existing template project
• The automation triggers per the name conditional "CP:*"
• The automation creates a predefined list of issues in the product backlog

With automation, how would this be possible? Is the project name conditional the way to go or would something else work better?

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Janne Jääskä 

The only constraints on the Project Created trigger are the project type: software, business, discovery, etc.  To do what you ask, your rule could use conditions and text functions to check if the name met your criteria:

https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-projects/
https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-text-fields/
https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-automation-conditions/

What does your prefix represent?  Knowing that may help the community to offer other suggestions.

Kind regards,
Bill