Is it possible to copy a story from one project to another, & automate closure on 1 board to other?

Maggie Spitchka

Is it possible to copy a story from one project to another, & automate closure on 1 board to other?

Project A:

- Example Story 1

 

Ideally, would have that, or a subset of the info, copy to Project B. Then, once the duplicate issue (Example Story 2) is completed on Project B board, it closes on Project A board (Example Story 1).

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Maggie Spitchka 

You can use the Clone Issue function to make a copy of an issue. When you do that manually in the UI you are not given the option to specify another project as the destination.

You could create an Automation Rule to clone the issue. The Clone Issue action in an Automation Rule does allow you to set the target project for the copy that is made.

If you use issue linking to link the issues together, you could also create an Automation Rule that will be triggered when Story 2 transitions to completed, and execute an action to also transition linked Story 1 to completed. That would require creating a multiple project scoped rule, which can be done only by a Jira Administrator.

Here is the home page for the Automation functionality documentation.

https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-cloud-automation/

If you are already using Automation Rules, you should also review the limitations on the number of rule executions you can have per month to ensure you will not hit your limit by adding more rules.

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/cloud-automation-packaging-update