Restricting the multiple issuelinking on a issue

Question

I have a scenario where we use issue linking to link the epic and story.

Epic > story

Using this issue linking we have a script that generates the EPIC LINK.

The problem we ran into now is when a user is linking two parents to a single story ( to epics as parents to a story) its creating a circular loop as its keep on updating the Epic link and bringing down the instance.

Can we write a condition or a behavior which checks if the story already has epic linked to it as parent and prevent from creating a other parent.

Ankith_i37df0 · Answer

Hi, it can be done using the script runner and checking the number of links of the issue before creating anymore further links.

John Funk · Answer

No, sorry I don't. You probably need to contact Support for the add-on.

Ankith_i37df0 · Answer

Hi John, yes what you stated is absolutely correct. We are using the epic link as well as Linked issues as we are using the structures, we needed the other issue linking to customize our automation.

The problem we are facing is people linking multiple epics to the a story which is running the script in a end less loop and breaking it down.

do you have a solution how to restrict the linked issue on a story using the script.

Thanks.