Automation with child issues

Question

I am working on an automation rule where when a issue has a child linked to it, create a series of shortcuts that link to various pages in the child.

When child epic is linked

Find the url for the roadmap/kanban/project pages of the child

Then create links in the description

Is there a way to find this information for a child?

RR_hqbomo · Answer

Hello,

Unfortunately this is something that will go for all future projects with ever changing board numbers per project. But I will certainly look into your idea using insight! I was unaware of that so thank you! Ill be sure to make a reply if it ends up working.

Mark Segall · Answer

Hi @RR

I played around in my environment and the challenge is that you need a mechanism to capture the board ID for the roadmap and kanban board.  If you're only dealing with a couple projects, you could use If/Else conditions with the board ID hard coded.  Then you would just use variables to capture the URLs... Something like this:

* CONDITION IF Project = x* ACTION Create Variable* varRoadmap
* INSTANCE.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/{{issue.project.key}}/boards/2/roadmap

* ACTION Create Variable* varKanban
* INSTANCE.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/{{issue.project.key}}/boards/2

* ACTION Create Variable* varProject
* Not sure exactly what link you're looking for (settings, backlog, etc.), but you should get the gist based upon the above

* CONDITION ELSE Project = y* Same as above, but change out the board ID accordingly.

However, if you have Insight, you could do something a bit more elegant by creating a projects object scheme with attributes like Board ID or anything else you want catalogued and then build your automation against that.