Having Problem in Automation rule regarding Story status

Jatin Bansal_l2gix3

I want an automation rule in which if any task is in progress, the story should automatically moved to In progress

And the start date should be set to Current date

How Can I set that?

I have done so far, just stuck in the smart value for current date

I have configured this to {{now}}

But this is not working

Attached are the screenshots

It is failing at each attempt.

Trudy P Claspill

@Jatin Bansal 

My apologies. You are correct that you cannot choose the Status field in the Edit action. To change the Status of an issue in Automation you need to add a Transition Issue action.

I believe this is the rule you want.

 

1. When an issue transitions to In Progress.

2. And that issue is a Sub-task
(We don't want to execute this rule if it was some other type of issue that transitioned to In Progress)

3. Then find the Parent issue for the Sub-task

4. And if the Parent issue status is To Do
(Here you would check if the Parent issue status was any of the statuses that come before "In Progress" in the workflow. If it is "In Progress" or farther along in the workflow, then we don't want to move the Parent issue backwards to an earlier Status.)

5. Then transition the Parent issue to In Progress

6. And set the Start Date for the Parent issue.
(I'm assuming you wanted to set the Start Date on the Parent issue. If you want to set the Start Date on the Sub-task that triggered the rule, then you need this step to be outside of the For Parent branch.)