Jira Automation

Question

Hello Team, I have built an automation to move the Epic to Blocked status automatically if one of the linked tickets are moved to blocked status.

Below is the JQL that I used to achieve this (which is working fine) and when the issues match the below, I have set the action to move the Epics in SAND project to Blocked on Shipping.

project = Test AND status in ("Blocked on DCE", "Blocked on Customs", "Blocked on HWS", "Blocked on INF Planning", "Blocked on Logistics") AND issueFunction in issuesInEpics("project in (SAND)")

Now, I would like to create an automation to revert the transition on the Epic back to the previous state(in-progress) when all the child tickets are moved from Blocked (NOT in Blocked anymore), could someone help me with the JQL for this?

Basically, 1+2 will show me the results where the Epic is in blocked even though all the linked tickets are not in blocked, now I'm struggling to make the logic to work....

1) project = Test AND status in (Planning, Compliance, In-Transit, Customs) AND issueFunction in issuesInEpics("project in (SAND)")

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2) project = SAND AND status = "Blocked on Shipping"

Thanks!

Sravan Duddella · Answer

Hello Team,

Apologies for the delayed response on this, I was away for a few days. Haven't got a chance to check this.

So here is my issues, I'm having difficulty in building the JQL and was hoping one of you could help.

Simmo_9kntn7 · Answer

Hi @Sravan Duddella

@Bill Sheboy is right on the money here! The related issues condition is the one he mentioned as well. You'd do something like this after you've branched:

Cheers,

Simeon

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Thanks, and another way to do this is triggered on issue transition (rather than scheduled).  For example to move TO blocked:

* trigger: issue transitioned TO one of your blocking conditions
* condition: issue type is whatever you use a children of epics
* branch: on epic parent* condition: epic is not currently in blocked status
* action: transition to blocked status

The rule to move FROM blocked is similar, and adds another condition:

* trigger: issue transitioned FROM one of your blocking conditions
* condition: issue type is whatever you use a children of epics
* condition: on JQL to confirm there are no children of the epic in blocked statuses
* branch: on epic parent* condition: epic is in blocked status
* action: transition to in-progress status