Parent issues have to inherit the latest due date of child issues

BenWade

Hi everyone,

Currently, I have this hierarchy:

-Theme
--Initiative
---Epic
----Story
-----Subtask

I want parent issues to inherit the latest due date of their child issues.

A story should inherit from a subtask, an epic from a story, an initiative from an epic, and a theme from an initiative.

For instance, if a story has 10 subtasks with due dates, then the story should inherit the latest due date of the subtask and this should be applied for all levels. How can I achieve this?

If it is possible to set up automation for that, please share the automation flow.

 

Thank you in advance

                         

           

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @BenWade 

You can accomplish that with this rule. In my example I an using the Start Date field, and setting the value to be the earliest value among the child issues.

To set it to the latest value you would use "max" instead of "min".

You also need to make sure that you have this box checked on the Rule Details page:

 

Additionally, if at any level an issue can have children in a different project, then you have to make the rule a multiple project scoped rule and include in the project scope all the projects where child issues might exist. Multiple Project scoped rules can be created only by Jira Administrators from the Global Automations page.