jira automation for team managed project when story changes parent

Ryan_ukel32

i'm trying to trigger the event when story changes parent in a team managed project

 

so far from what i know, the thing is bugged so you need to use 'issue updated' but when i tried to access the changelog, i can't seem to find the field i'm supposed to use to access the current and previous parent

so the smart value i was trying to use was

{{#changelog.parent}}{{fromString}} {{/}}

{{#changelog.parent}}{{toString}} {{/}}

both are blank even though i can see it in the story changelog that a parent field was updated

 

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Ryan 

Short answer: you can access the id of the previous Epic and use that to get more information.

Longer answer:

Changelog has a few challenges with the parent field (and list fields).  The REST API seems to indicate this field is supported for Team-Managed Projects, but as you show it can only be read as a field/smart value...not detected as a change.

After checking the complete change history for an issue with the REST API, I found there is another smart value that shows the change of parent: IssueParentAssociation.  That provides the issue id rather than the key.

An example rule to use that would be:

• trigger: issue updated
• advanced compare condition:
  • first value: {{#changelog.IssueParentAssociation}}{{fromString}}{{/}}
  • condition: does not equal
  • second value: {{#changelog.IssueParentAssociation}}{{toString}}{{/}}
• branch: on JQL with id = {{#changelog.IssueParentAssociation}}{{fromString}}{{/}}
  • action: log that the prior epic was {{issue.key}}

 

Kind regards,
Bill