Enable Jira automation for specific tasks only

Question

I have looked into Jira automation and I see that it is possible to define project wide rules, which will affect all the issues based on conditions.

In our case we would like to sum up story points of sub tasks and display the result as the story points of the parent task. However we only want to apply it to certain "special" taks. Ideally, we would like to manually click on this special task and choose to opt-in the automatic summing up of story points, while all other tasks in the project should be unaffected.

Is it possible within Jira to have an automation rule and choose to manually apply it to special tasks only?

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @Artjoms Jakovenko  -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Automation rules are either enabled or disabled, not by a specific issue.

If you have specific criteria in the issue you want to decide when a rule runs, that criteria may be used by triggers and conditions to limit rule execution.

Best regards,

Bill

Artjoms Jakovenko · Answer

Manual trigger works, but I would like it to act as a flag, that is, if the rule is enabled for this task, whenever a subtask is changed, it sums up the points in the subtasks and applies those points to the parent.

Sort of like this:

Alexis Robert · Answer

Hi @Artjoms Jakovenko ,

yes it is possible to choose "Manual trigger" as your rule trigger, this will add a field in the issue view where you can then start the rule :

Let me know if this helps,

--Alexis