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Automate adding substring of the parent task summary name to the subtasks

Tina.Henry

Is there a way to automate adding part of the parent task summary name to subtasks when created - or if cloned? I have a number of subtasks that need to be created for each issues. For our project the subtasks are the same for each issue so I'd like a way to differentiate by parent task. Currently I'm experimenting with cloning an issue that has been set up to be a "template". I'd like to remove the label "CLONE" from the subtasks when created and replace it with a substring of the first 10 characters of the parent summary name.

Alternately I'm considering setting up an automation to create subtasks when the issue moves into certain workflow lanes. In this case I'd like to append the substring of the parent issue summary name to the beginning of the subtask summary name when created.

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Mark Segall

Hi @Tina.Henry

For the first part of your question... Yes, you would create an automation rule that would be triggered by issue create and action would be to update the field with a smart value

{{issue.summary.left(10)}}

As for the second part of your question, I repeatedly use automation rules for spawning other issues and that smart value above would be used in the summary of the create issue action. Then add all of the other fields you want populated and set to copy from current issue or copy from trigger issue.

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Mark Segall

Hi @Tina.Henry

For the first part of your question... Yes, you would create an automation rule that would be triggered by issue create and action would be to update the field with a smart value

{{issue.summary.left(10)}}

Tina.Henry

Thanks Mark. I gave the suggested smart value a try. The result was that the substring was applied to each subtask summary name. I'd like to append the 10 character substring of the Parent issue summary to the subtask issue summary. Is there a way to pull this from the parent and add it to the subtask?

Mark Segall

Hi @Tina.Henry - Can you share a screenshot of what you've got so far. I'm thinking you need a branch rule, but a screenshot would be helpful to make sure I'm understanding the issue correctly.

Tina.Henry

Hi @Mark Segall . Here's a screenshot of the "template" Issue I created. And you can also see the list issues in the current sprint. The project's focus is the creation and enhancement of Validation checks. So each task will have similar requirements and the same subtasks. So I'd like to create the tasks by starting with this "template". I've successfully built the automation remove "CLONE" from the subtasks. Now I want to append the first 9 or 10 characters from the Parent task name to each of the subtasks so that when notifications go out for the subtasks and on dashboards, there's a clear indication as to which issue it refers. The second screenshot shows the desired result (which I'd created manually). Actually now that I think about it what would work best is to append the characters before the first space as the length of the VC# varies. Is there a formula I could employ for that result?

I didn't capture a screenshot of my initial attempt at this automation, but if I remember correctly what I got was a subtask named "Outline R Outline Requirements and Wiki Content" instead of my intended result: "VC304-14 Outline Requirements and Wiki Content"

Does this help?

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