How to do when you assigned an epic and versions to a story, also assign it to the subtasks?

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How to do when you assigned an epic to a story/versions, also assign it to the subtasks?

I find that I need to apply an epic and the versions in the stories of my project and then I have to go one by one also assigning the subtasks.

Is there any automation that makes this process easier?

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @David Torrente - Bibloos

Just following up to check if you solved this by creating the rule, or if you needed other assistance.  Thanks!

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @David Torrente - Bibloos -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Are you trying to do this:

Given there is an epic which has child stories, and those stories have subtasks
When the epic has a version added to Fix Version
Then copy the Fix Version from the epic to the child stories and their subtasks

You could do that with a couple of automation rules: one to copy from epic to story, and one to copy from story to subtasks (triggered by the changes from the first story).

To get you started on creating your rule, please refer to these documentation and example sources.  Within those examples, there is at least one showing how to do this copy of a field from parent to child issues.

* https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/guides/automation/overview#what-is-automation
* https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/automation-template-library#/rule-list?systemLabelId=all&page=1&pageSize=20&sortKey=name&sortOrder=ASC
* https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-issues/
* https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/use-advanced-search-with-jira-query-language-jql/

Kind regards,
Bill