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Automation to update children of Epic is reporting success, but not working

Alex Smith_h46m05

I created the following automation following some examples I found on this forum. The automation aims to set the fixed version on all child tickets of an epic to the same value as the parent epic.

As you can see from the log, I'm saving the Epics fixVersion in a variable and logging that variable to confirm it worked. Then I start the For: Stories to loop over the child tickets. I'm again logging the value in epicFixVersion. Finally, it logs that it has successfully updated all of the tickets in the epic.

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I'm setting the Fix Version with this action:

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The logs look good. The automation seems like all the others I've seen, but the child tickets aren't changed.

Accepted answers

Kai Becker

Hi @Alex Smith

welcome to the community and thanks for your question.

Actually there is an easier way than creating a variable and copy values.

You can just edit the issue field in your loop an copy over the value from the trigger issue:

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Hope this helps 🙂

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Kai Becker

Hi @Alex Smith

welcome to the community and thanks for your question.

Actually there is an easier way than creating a variable and copy values.

You can just edit the issue field in your loop an copy over the value from the trigger issue:

Screenshot 2023-08-03 at 20.36.13.png

Hope this helps 🙂

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Alex Smith -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Yes, and...to the answer from Kai:

The reason your rule does not work as you expect is created variables are text, and you have stored a list of multiple versions in it. That got converted to a comma-separated values list...but of only the version id values, not all of the version information. That was visible when you logged the created variable.

To use that variable in the issue edit, you would need to split them apart and then add them using a JSON edit.

The way Kai described is much simpler.

Remember to decide if you want to replace or add to the stories in the epics: to replace, clear the "Add to existing values" checkbox in the edit.