How to monitor total story points of linked stories that linked to a user story as a User Story Val?

cemilsarihan

Hi Everyone,

We're trying to create an automation from Jira software to see total story points of some stories that linked to a user story. 

Normally we have same automation but Jira allows us to show epic as a parent and we can get all the remaining story points of the stories. but we could not do that for user story. 

I attached the screenshots below. 

we tried to get all linked stories and created a variable that is calculating all lookup issues and sum the story points. 

then wrote a jql to get user stories and tried to edit user story value with the new variable. but it did not worked. 

Do you have any suggestions? Thank you. 

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @cemilsarihan 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

1. The scope of a variable created within a branch is limited to within that branch. You can't use the variable outside the branch.

2. You can't use the {{lookupIssues}} object if you have not first used the Lookup Issues action.

3. Your branch for Linked Issues is going to look at each issue linked to the trigger issue, not all the linked issues as a group.

So there are many problems with this rule. 

Let us first get a clear understanding of what you want to happen.

When do you expect this rule to be triggered, and for which issues?

Do you want it triggered when there is a change to the issue you want to edit?

For what sort of changes do you want the rule triggered? When the issue is created? When other issues are linked to it, or linked issues are removed.

And you want the sum to be calculated based on only some of the linked issues, correct? You want to sum only the linked issues that are of type "User Story" and that have the "blocks" relationship to the issue you want to update, is that correct?