Is it possible to stop creating tasks on closed epics?

Benjamin Buchwald

Hello dear community,

Is it possible, when an epic is closed, to prevent tasks from being created under this epic? Perhaps with an automation rule?

Normally not necessary, but we have employees who do this even though we have advised them not to do so.

Do you have any better suggestions?

 

Best regards,

Benjamin

Walter Buggenhout

Hi @Benjamin Buchwald,

Even if it were possible, I would not recommend this. Generally speaking, making tools block creating issues usually leads to frustration, misunderstanding and sometimes even the need for complex workarounds when you do want to allow exceptions.

Rather than blocking this, you could instead use an automation rule to send a notification message to either the user who created the issue or the epic assignee through logic similar to this:

• Trigger: issue created
• Condition: field value / issuetype = Task (or any other relevant entries)
• Condition: related issues / Parent exists
  • Branch: For parent
  • Condition: status = Done / Closed / ...
  • action: send email "you added an issue to a closed epic. Are you sure"

On a side note - blocking issue creation would be quite difficult in itself, since the link to an Epic is just a reference in the parent field of your issue to that epic. There are no controls that allow you to validate the status of the parent epic before you hit the create button.

Hope this helps!