Story Point Summation - Child to Parent

Jay R_j30xts

I've read countless articles on this and outside of summing Story Points of Sub-tasks, I cannot get this to work for Tasks.

Does anyone have code that sums Story Points from a Task to it's parent Story?  or just code that sums Story Points from children to its Parent?

These do not work:

• {"fields": {"Story Points": {{#=}} {{#subtasks}} {{Story Points}} + {{/}} 0 {{/}} }}
• {{lookupIssues.Story Points.sum}}
• {{issues.tasks.Story Points.sum}}
  
  I've tried various combinations of actions and triggers. 
  
  

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Jay R 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

The native parent/child issue hierarchy in Jira is

Epic
|-- base issue types: Story, Task, Bug, etc.
    |-- subtask issue types

Jira does not recognize that there is a parent/child relationship between a Task and a Story when you have used the generic issue linking function to artificially create that relationship by using names in the link that say "parent of/child of".

I am surmising that you have used the generic issue linking functionality because in your automation rule you have this Condition:

Can you provide a screen image that shows the details of one of your "parent" Stories that has "child" Tasks so I can confirm this is the case?

 

If you have used generic issue linking to create that parent/child relationship, then use of the "For Parent" branch in the automation rule will not work because Jira does not see the generic link as a parent/child relationship.

Assuming you are using generic issue linking...

Does a Task have that link with one and only one Story?

Here is a rule for summing up story points through a generic link relationship. In my case the link relationship is Story "has bug" Bug. Stated in the reverse that would be Bug "is child bug of" Story , which is similar to your generic parent/child link.

This rule is triggered when the Story Points on the child Bug is changed.

 

You might also want rules that recalculate the story point sum if a Task is newly linked to a Story, and if a link between a Task and Story is removed.