Transitioning "Ready to Work" to "Open" when removing from active Sprint, but NOT closing Sprint

[Mark Bodha]

Hi All,

I'd like to use automation to ensure all tickets in the active sprint and waiting to be worked on are set to Ready to Work – to distinguish from Open in the Backlog.

Automating the transition when starting a sprint or adding tickets to the active sprint works fine (see rules structure below).

When a ticket is removed from the Sprint, however, I would like to set its status back to Open.  When a Sprint is closed, however, I'd like in-flight tickets (In Progress, Testing) to retain their values when they are moved into their new, upcoming Sprint

I originally created a rule to transition any ticket removed from openSprints() back to Open : when sprint value changes, if sprint not in (EMPTY, futureSprints()) then transition to Open.

The difficulty I'm having is when we close (i.e. legitimately finish) a sprint and move any incomplete tickets into the next upcoming sprint – i.e. a futureSprints(), this also triggers the rule.  This means all those in-flight tickets get reset back to Open,  which is inconvenient – we'd like to carry their existing status in their new, upcoming Sprint.

Is there a way I can ignore tickets that were in the just-closed sprint?  Or a way to achieve the Ready to Work idea?

Thanks!

Mark 

Automations to set Ready To Work when starting or adding tickets to a Sprint.

Start of Sprint trigger:

• When Sprint Started in [myboard] 
• For Issues in the Sprint AND Status = Open (i.e. not already in-flight)
• Transition to Ready to Work

Adding tickets to an open Sprint:

• When Value changes for Sprint
• If Sprint in openSprints() AND Status = Open
  • Don't actually need the status portion, but just to be clear to myself it only applies to tickets from the Backlog

[Mark Bodha]

Thanks both, I'll give these a try 👍🏽

[Gor Greyan]

Hi @Mark Bodha
Try the following condition, maybe it will fit for your case.

sprint not in (openSprints(), futureSprints()) AND
sprint WAS IN openSprints() AND
status = Ready to Work

[Mark Bodha]

It appears the "Was in" operator cannot be used with Sprints:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-39256

[arielei]

Hey @Mark Bodha 

You can do the following adjustments to your automation:
Trigger: When Sprint value has changed

1. Add a "Delay" action for 2-3 seconds.

2. Re-fetch data

3. Check if Sprint value does not exists 

and keep the rest.

This way it will catch only work-items that were removed from the sprint.