How do I copy a field from a story to Epic if I do not have Global admin rights, using Automation?

Question

I am a project admin with rights in the story project and the project that contains it's Epic. I am using Jira Automation to accomplish this. I am trying to add the values that are in a field, from the story to it's parent Epic. I would like this to be when the field value changes.

An example would be the Labels field, if I listed "Label A" in a story, then that "Label A" would be added to the labels field of the Epic. Is this something that is possible in any way? And if other story 2 under the Epic contained "Labels B" and story 3 contained "Labels C", the the Epic would have all 3 labels listed. Same question for concatenating information the the notes field within the Epic?Thanks!

Steven Johnson_e13aja · Answer

Yes, unfortunately they are in separate projects. I know this one was a long shot, but also know there are a lot of creative ways to tackle some of these things.

For example, I can use an automation rule to move one project's Epic status when the status of a separate project story changes. I couldn't do it directly, but used a filter to find all of the stories that are in a specific status. Then in the Epic project I created a rule that called that filter and ran the trigger as a schedule, which checks for this and updates the Epic if it finds any.

That is a MUCH more simple ask than what I am currently trying to do, so I doubted that it was possible, but it doesn't hurt to try, right. :)

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Are the Epic and child issues in different projects?

As a project admin you can create automation rules based on issues in only one project at a time. You can't create rules that can be triggered by changes to issues in Project A and then make changes to related issues in Project B. That would require intervention from a Jira Administrator.

If you Epic and child issues are in different projects, you cannot accomplish this without a Jira Administrator's assistance.

Steven Johnson_e13aja · Answer

Thanks for the reply Trudy! I realize now that I should have been more detailed in my question. I am trying to do this using Automation (data server). The issue is that I know I could do it if I had global (jira) admin rights, but I do not and cannot use anyone that does, so I am trying to do this with only having project admin rights.