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Jira Automation

Don Hames

I am new to Jira Automation, so this is probably a simple question that I need help with. I am trying to create a series of Jira issues after a manual trigger. I need to create an Epic and several Stories as children of the Epic. In my testing, I have not found a way to successfully create the Epic and a Story that is a child of the Epic. I can create both issues, but the parent link relationship is not being set. Any wisdom or suggestions?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Accepted answers

Jack Brickey

Hi @Don Hames ,

How are you dealing with giving the epic a name in your automation? Are you somehow using smart values. Understanding this will help define the best course of action for your automation rule. If you have a rule that you have created as a starting point please share via a screenshot.

Alex Koxaras -Relational-

Hi @Don Hames

Use the following rule. This worked for me on my instance:

create epic with story.png

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Jack Brickey

Hi @Don Hames ,

Alex Koxaras -Relational-

Hi @Don Hames

Use the following rule. This worked for me on my instance:

create epic with story.png

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Don Hames

Yes, and...to Alex's answer:

As you want to add multiple stories linked to the issue, when setting the epic link within the branch please use {{issue.key}} as that will refer to the epic in the branch.

If you instead use {{createdIssue.key}} that will refer to the last issue created, and so the second story added will attempt to refer to the first one, and so on, leading to errors.

Kind regards,
Bill

Alex Koxaras -Relational-

@Bill Sheboy thanx for this correction!

Don Hames

Thank you, @Bill Sheboy and @Alex Koxaras -Relational- Your suggestion worked the first time, and I can now create multiple Stories in my Epic. This is just what I needed, and thank you for such a quick response.

Just one last question on the same subject, I need to create the Stories in a separate project from my Epic. It's working only because I enter the other project's name on the Create Issue:

Can the destination project name be overwritten with the More Options JSON script?

Create Issue.png

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