Create automatic follow up story

stefan bruijns

Hello community,

I wanted to know if it is possible when creating a story that automatically creates a follow-up story. 

Example: 

I have created a/b test in a story, I automatically want to add a follow-up to analyze the results (in the next sprint).

Hope some of you have more experience in this.

With kind regards,

Stefan 

Callum Carlile _Automation Consultants_

Hi @stefan bruijns , welcome to the Community! This is certainly possible.

You can create an automtion rule as follows:

Trigger: Issue Created

Condition: Issue fields condition, then select Issue Type and Story in the dropdowns.

I would also add another condition so that your follow-up task is only created when you are creating an A/B Test issue. This could be a component called A/B Test or some kind of unique identifier which you would set when creating the A/B Test issue, and you would set this when you are wanting to create a follow-up task for the Story. If you don't have this, then the automation rule will create a story, which will trigger the rule, which will create a story... etc etc.

Action: Create Issue - you can set the Summary of this follow-up story to always be the same, or you can use smart values to pull through values from the triggering Story (e.g. issue key, Summary of the A/B Test story, or any other field values attributed to the triggering story). You can add any other fields you want to copy across from the triggering story to the new story using the dropdown, then by clicking on the 3 dots next to the field you can pull through the values.

You might also want to link the newly created story to the triggering story, which you can do using a branch.

See the screenshots below as an example of how you could set this rule up.

Hope this helps!