How to get the link type of a deleted link?

Question

In my automation I want to remove a label when the "is duplicated by" link type is deleted from an issue. My trigger is When: Issue link is deleted. I thought I could do this by referencing {{destinationIssue.linkType}} but the automation returns this as nothing when I output this to the log. Is it impossible to get the link type of a deleted link?

Marc -Devoteam- · Answer

HI @Chloe Allison

I dug some more and found this information based on automation.

So ideally the Automation rule for this would simply be:

* Trigger: Issue deleted
* Action: Related issues (linked issues)* Action: Delete issue

However in practice this doesn't work, since the 'Issue deleted' trigger arrives after the issue has been deleted and removed from JIRA's search indexes.

Chloe Allison_7awfnj · Answer

Hi Marc,

Thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately this automation never gets triggered when a linked issue is deleted for some reason.

Marc -Devoteam- · Answer

Hi @Chloe Allison

Welcome to the community.

It might that the following rule, will achieve this.

I just made a mock-up as I didn't have time to test it.