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Only transition a sub-task when an other sub-task is done

thrilos07

Hi,

right now I created this automation rule:

so whenever I create a new Issue of type Bug, there are also 4 subtask created.

Now, I only want to be able to move Subtask 3 into "in Progress" once Subtask 1 and Subtask 2 are set on "Done". How can I do this inside of "Automation"?

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Tessa Tuteleers

Hi @thrilos07 ,

welcome to the community!

My first thought is, why would you want to do this?

My second one is, if you want to block a transition (to in progress), you will need to add conditions to the workflow, so it wouldn't be in automation for jira.

Finally, if you want to have any relation between the subtasks, they will need to be related (directly linked) instead of just via the parent.

If I were you, I would just chain the creation of the subtaks -> make a rule that if a subtask is closed, another is created.

Hope this helps a little.

- Tessa

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Tessa Tuteleers

Hi @thrilos07 ,

welcome to the community!

Finally, if you want to have any relation between the subtasks, they will need to be related (directly linked) instead of just via the parent.

If I were you, I would just chain the creation of the subtaks -> make a rule that if a subtask is closed, another is created.

Hope this helps a little.

- Tessa

thrilos07

Hi @Piet Pieters

thank you for your fast response.

-My first thought is, why would you want to do this?

I want to be able to decide, when excactly I am able to access some of the Sub-Tasks. For example, if I was going to make pasta I would create an Issue which, by default, creates the Subtasks "boil water" and "cook noodles". When those two Subtasks are done, I would like to automaticaly create a new Subtask which is called "cook the sauce" or something. So I would like to have some kind of sequence related to an Issue-Type.

-My second one is, if you want to block a transition (to in progress), you will need to add conditions to the workflow, so it wouldn't be in automation for jira.

Problem with this is, that by creating an condition it would apply to all Issues/Substorys, but I just want it to be related to the Issuetype.

-make a rule that if a subtask is closed, another is created.

That is what I am currently looking into. But I can't seem to find a way to do this, since the "When"-Clause inside of Automation only refers to Issues and not Subtasks. Or am I missing something?

Tessa Tuteleers

Hi,

in response to your second point, a subtask is a special kind of issue, but an issue nonetheless, so you could "catch" the creation of a subtasks with the create issue trigger and some extra IF's.

That being said, perhaps you could look into this discussion from a while back, which provides some other insights on this matter.

thrilos07

So I gave up trying to block sub-tasks from moving while others are not done. Right now I am trying a workaround, where if 2 sub-tasks are set to done another 2 subtasks are getting created inside of the same issue:

But this does not work also . Not sure what I am not doing right.

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