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How can an automation change history and epic status, when a task is moved to 'in progress'?

Fernando Jordi de Lima Bueno

Hello, I'm trying to set up an automation for my project, so that when I put a subtask 'in progress', its story and corresponding epic also have the status 'in progress'. my automation is like the image below, but it only changes the story, the epic is only changed when I change the story card on the board. Could anyone help me fix this automation?

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Fernando Jordi de Lima Bueno -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Remember that a subtask's parent is the story, and the story's parent is the epic.

When your rule uses the branch on Epic (parent) it is trying to reference the subtask, which is not correct. Instead please try using a JQL branch to update the epic, perhaps with JQL like this:

issueType = Epic and key = {{triggerIssue.parent.Epic link}}

Kind regards,
Bill

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Fernando Jordi de Lima Bueno -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Remember that a subtask's parent is the story, and the story's parent is the epic.

When your rule uses the branch on Epic (parent) it is trying to reference the subtask, which is not correct. Instead please try using a JQL branch to update the epic, perhaps with JQL like this:

issueType = Epic and key = {{triggerIssue.parent.Epic link}}

Kind regards,
Bill

Fernando Jordi de Lima Bueno

Hey, I implemented it the way you advised and it worked fine here. Thank you very much Bill, you helped me a lot!

Kind Regards,
Fernando

Bill Sheboy

Awesome; I am glad to learn that helped!

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