Transition of one issue to change status on another linked issue

[Andy Mirecki]

Hi there

Aside of using Jira for Agile Software development we also started using it for more business and admin related processes. With that came a particular requirement that I couldn't find a straight answer to:

A project contains a number of tasks, some of which are linked by "Blocks" / "is blocked by" relation to identify dependencies.

Tasks that are blocked are already assigned to someone that will need to do them, but they sit in a "Waiting" status as they can't be started until the tasks that block them are "Done".

Is there a way to automate the process whereby marking a task as "Done" would in turn check whether any tasks that it "Blocks" are now not blocked anymore (as one task can be blocked by many other tasks) and if so move them from status "Waiting" to "To Do"?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

I would suggest an addon. I use Automation Lite for Jira (or the non-free version Automation for Jira). Other very popular ones are Scriptrunner and Power Scripts.

[Andy Mirecki]

Thanks, trying Automation now, will see how it goes!