Auto adjust dates if they overlap

Question

Hi everyone,

I am trying to grow my JIRA knowledge and I hope you can help.

This is the scenario:

Story 1

Start Date: Jan 1 2021

End Date: Jan 2 2021

Story 2

Start Date: Jan 3 2021

Start Date: Jan 4 2021

Questions:

1. How do I quickly link stories instead of manually opening each story and creating links?

2. How do I prevent date overlaps?

If I change the start/end date of Story 1, I want Story 2 to adjust automatically so they don't overlap.

I tried this automation but it doesn't seem to work.

I tried this but it's not working:

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/automation-template-library#/rule/1357113/25938353

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

I think you can do this with Automation for Jira. I haven't worked out all the details, but this is the starting point.

You would have to have a specific link type between the issues so you could use that to identify the ones you want to change.

And I'm not sure how it would work out if you had several issues linked in a chain where updating #1 causes #2 to be updated, which causes #3 to be updated, and so on.

miguel.baranda · Answer

Thanks for replying @Trudy It seems Trello may be a simpler option.

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @miguel.baranda

Welcome to the community.

The template rule you referenced is for updating the due date of a parent Epic when the due date of one of its child issues is changed. It is not for updating dates between related child issues.

I have not worked out the details for how to do what you are asking with automation, but if you have a Jira Premium subscription then you could look at using the Auto-scheduling feature of the Advanced Roadmaps tool.