How can I update an issue's category via Automation?

Brock Jolet_wkfaaa

I've found a couple of similar posts, but they're not exactly what I'm looking for.

I am using Category in a JWM project because the "Group by:" options do not allow me to use Components or Labels or anything similar. However, I don't want to manually update every task and subtask when I assign a Category to an epic.

I want an automation rule that updates the children when the epic's Category is changed.

 

I am able to trigger a rule when the Category field changes. Then I perform a branch search for the following query:

parent in ({{triggerIssue.key}}) OR parentEpic in ({{triggerIssue.key}})

 But I cannot figure out how to copy the value from the triggerIssue to these other issues; Category is not an option in the easy field picker and everything I try in the Additional Fields section throws an error.

 

To use the field in a filter, it's formatted as "Category[Category]", but using {{issue.Category.value}} appears to work as a smart filter.

Mikael Sandberg

The category is a special custom field, and can only be set by using the More options and the advanced field editing. You need to find the ID for the category you want to set, one way of doing that is to have manual triggered automation that has a log action that you set to {{issue.Category}}.

This is what the JSON would look like to set the Category:

{
  "fields": {
    "Category": {
      "id": "<Category Id>"
    }
  }
}