Create Jira Issues Based on Project Category

Question

Hello,

I am looking for a way to automatically create multiple stories upon the creation of a project within a certain category.

I tried it using Automation as follows but it does not work. The Audit log says "NO ACTIONS PERFORMED" when creating a new project in the "Engineering" category:

Bill Sheboy · Answer

According to this post from Atlassian Support, the smart value is projectCategory for an issue, as you noted.  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/What-is-the-smart-value-for-project-category/qaq-p/1457879

So perhaps try this for that trigger based only on the project:

I currently have no categories defined in my instance so I am unable to test this.

If that does not work, and you are on a paid license, please work with your site admin to submit a support ticket to Atlassian for ideas to try: https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/

Alex Sanda · Answer

Hi @Bill Sheboy ,

I have already read the documentation for {{project}} but could not find a smart value for Project Category.

Thanks,

Alex

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @Alex Sanda

I believe with that trigger you may use the {{project}} smart value.  Here are the documented attributes for it:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/smart-values-projects/

Kind regards,
Bill