create subtask -when issue moved into active sprint or in sprint when it starts

Jacob Goldman_io0o7l

Hi- 

I want to create an automation that automatically creates a placeholder subtask when either:

1) the issue is story/task and is in the sprint when it starts

and

2) the issue is a story/task and is moved into the active sprint

We are trying to enforce always committing code against a sub-task. Automations I've experimented with are resulting in a sub-task being created even if I moved a ticket into the future sprint while I am exploring prioritization.

I recognize that a subtask will get created one way or another, but i am curious how this can be done.

Thank you,

Jacob

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Jacob Goldman 

Can you show us the Automation Rule(s) you've constructed and tell us how they are not meeting your requirement.

There is a rule Trigger for Sprint Started.

You could use that and follow it with a For Branch/Related Issues to retrieve all the issues in the sprint under which you want to create the subtask. You can use either the Issues In Sprint option if you want a subtask created under every issue in the sprint, or the JQL option if you want the subtask created under a subset of issues in the sprint.

Then add the Create Issue action to create the subtask.

 

A rule to add subtasks when an issue is added to an active sprint is a little trickier. I haven't worked out the details for that. It would involve a trigger for the issue being updated, detecting that a value was added to the Sprint field, figuring out which value was added, and then determining if that represented an Active sprint.