Inherit (custom)field value from linked Epic

Question

Summary:

I have 2 projects, 1 business oriented and 1 team oriented. The business project works with Initiatives and Epics, the Team project works with Stories, Bugs, Tasks etc.

Within the whole company we work with different domains, such as E-Commerce, Supply Chain, Finance etc. The Epics / Initiatives have a Custom field where we specify the Domain the Epic is linked to. The teams create Stories for these Epics to work on (within the fore mentioned team project) and link them to the Epic.

Problem:

What I want is that the Stories that are created in the Team project, automatically inherit the Domain-field value from the linked Epic. I want to achieve this for every new story created but also existing Stories (as I am trying to improve transparency).

Through automations I only seem to be able to specify 1 particular value and not any value. But maybe I am doing something wrong.

Trudy Claspill · Answer

Hello @Hollee

I see you created your own Question for this. I posted a response there:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-can-you-inherit-fields-from-two-independent-Jira-boards/qaq-p/2440219

Hollee · Answer

@Peter  Did you get an answer to this?  I am experiencing a similar problem - trying to inherit a field from one project to another.  As I am writing automation, it appears the branch is restrictive to the project I am writing the automation on, with no ability to change/add (not even available under the rule details)

Trudy Claspill · Answer

Hello @Peter

Please provide here an image that shows your Automation Rule. We can't provide guidance without those details.