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Automation to create Epic and set Epic Link of trigger issue to the created epic

Steven Mills_5ggspb

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to create automation that does the following:

Manual trigger
Create Epic
Update trigger issue's Epic Link to be the newly created Epic in step 2.

I've managed to do step 1 and 2. So, I have the epic, but I can't seem to set the Epic Link of the trigger issue to the the epic. I've tried creating a variable using the new epic issue's key. The variable is working properly as I can see the correct key in the audit log.

However, when I set the Epic Link on the trigger issue to my variable, the Epic Link is not set.

Any ideas?

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John Funk

Hi Steven - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Can you share the actual rule that you have so far?

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John Funk

Hi Steven - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Can you share the actual rule that you have so far?

Steven Mills_5ggspb

Hi @John Funk - Thank you for the support.

I've shared a screenshot of the rule so far below.

Basically, when triggered on a issue, the rule will create an epic in the same project and add the initiator as a watcher. Ideally, I'd like the rule to add the trigger issue as a child issue of the epic it just created.

Is there any way to do this?

Thank you.

Screenshot 2023-05-16 150635.png

John Funk

Maybe create a variable to capture the key of the Epic under the Most recently created issue branch. And then use that value to update the Epic Link field of the trigger issue.

Steven Mills_5ggspb

Hi @John Funk

I've tried this before, but it hasn't worked. I've update the rule but it's still not worked. I've reviewed the log, which shows the correct {{issue.key}} of the epic, which I'm storing at {{newEpicKey}} and adding to the log. When I set the trigger issue's Epic Link to {newEpicKey}} there's no Epic on the trigger issue and no child issue on the epic.

Am I doing anything wrong?

Screenshot 2023-05-23 095403.png

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