How can I add time tracking of all the subtasks to a story?

Question

I have started using the next zen project for our sprints. We work in a traditional way, where story is assigned to me (PM). Then devs breakdown the story into tech subtasks and those subtasks are assigned to respective dev. Each dev put their own estimates at the subtasks, now I as a PM would like to know how much time has been spent on the story and how much is pending. I was trying to use automation rule but I can't define this rule in Jira. Is there any way to estimate or is there any other approach to know the estimates at story level?

Bhavin Joshi · Answer

Try this:

Project settings - > Apps -> Automation -> Create rule

Trigger: Field value changed -> Time tracking

Action: Log work.

As of now, there is no automation rule/action available for story.

Kuldeep Attri · Answer

Hi Bhavin, thanks for the answer. I think I didn't put my question clearly. Let me rephrase, I have added the field Time tracking on subtask and Stories, now I want to build an automation rule which adds the time provided on each subtask of a story and reflect it on the story.

Bhavin Joshi · Answer

From project settings -> Issue type, you can customize the fields on each of those issue types. Here, in the right hand side, you will see a list of existing fields as well as a way to create new fields. From the list of existing fields, you will be able to time tracking ability in any of the issue type.

Estimates can be calcuated based on the start & End date. It is the time tracking which actully tells you how much time it took to complete a particular task.