JIRA Stories and Sub-tasks

Shankar Rao Pal

Hello Everyone.

Could you please assist in letting me know if it is possible to do the following in JIRA ?

The requirement is to add a "button"/action in Jira Story Page. When user clicks on that button, it should generate three “sub-tasks” under that story.

We would like to create three to four standard tasks (E.g. Create Test Data, Design Test Case, Execute Test Case, Develop / update product documentation) under every story for tracking the hours of each of the sub task, add notes etc.

The above will apply to all the stories.

Please let me know your thoughts in this regard.

Regards,

Shankar

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

You'll need a bit of code. The task itself is suited to a workflow post-function - i.e. when a user goes from status A to status B, then you could run one (or three!) that would create the sub-tasks you need. If've you have the script-runner, this is quite an easy bit of code, and there are some add-ons in the marketplace which do "create sub task" as well.

The button is a different matter. If you use a workflow post-function as above, then you could add it into the workflow at the relevant place - you could even have a transition that doesn't change the status, and just creates the sub-tasks. If you must have a button, then you'll need to code a web-fragment add-on to add one, and then you put all your "create issue" code behind that as well.

While you're coding, consider how you stop someone hitting the button more than once as well...