Automated Email of EPIC % complete

Dave White_fo7kay

Hi There: 

We have Jira Cloud, and we need to produce a weekly email of the completion percentage of active Epics, plus an Epic Complete email.     I think I can figure out how to use Jira Automation to send out the EPIC complete email, but no clue how to send out the % complete email automatically. 

 

This is fairly urgent and would greatly appreciate any help in any form. 

 

thanks, 

K Dave White, Sr. Technical Scrum Master, DevOps

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Dave White 

How would you calculate Epic completeness?

The percent complete shown in the Epic itself is based simply on the count of child issues, with the "% Done" measure counting those that are in a status that is part of the Done Status Category  (the green statuses, vs. the blue and gray statuses).

 

 

If that is the number you want, be advised that number is not stored as a piece of data in the Epic. It is calculated on demand when you are viewing the Epic.

An Automation Rule could be constructed to make that calculation for an Epic.

My automation skills are enough that I could tell you how to send one email for each Epic, but not such that I know how to send on email that contains that information for all Epics. I think the latter could be done, but I haven't spent the time to figure out how to do it. There are other people in the community with ninja skills in automation that can hopefully weigh in.

Alternately you could construct an automation rule that actually recorded that value into each Epic. Then it would be fairly simple to generate another rule that would send out an email with the list of Epics that included that value for each Epic.