Set status of an EPIC to lowest status of it's child Task/Story

Question

Hi,

for the following use case I need your Input.
I want to keep my EPICS in a consistent status, so that the EPIC adopts the lowest status of it's included tasks / stories.

Let me give you an example:

I have an EPIC A and 3 Tasks within.

All these Tasks and the EPIC have the status = done

Now I create a new task within this epic - start value of the task status = backlog

Now I expect that the status of the epic changes also to backlog. When I now set the status of the task to "in progress" the status of the epic should also change to "in progress"

When I now created another task or story within this epic and the status = "backlog" the epic should change to the lowest status of all including tasks / stories - in this moment = "backlog"

Mikael Sandberg · Answer

The second automation would look something like this, with a if/else condition for each of you statuses

And you should probably add a condition in the if/else block that also verifies the status of the epic and only transition if the epic is not already in the specified status.

Philipp Hildebrandt · Answer

It would be great, if you could give me a complete example for my case 😎

Mikael Sandberg · Answer

Correct, the above was just an example. I would probably have two automations, and in the Epic branch make a web request to the second one that looks up the lowest status.