Jira Automation For Parent SubTasks Summary JQL

Sam Stinton_x73psj

I want to use Automation to set the status of a Task based on it's Sub-Tasks, I;ve got several sets of Subtasks all with a different prefix.

In the above while the "status != Done" is working and checks the Subtasks, The issue.summary is returning the contents of the Parent, what am I missing to pull the Subtask summary instead?

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Sam Stinton -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I do not believe you can use a JQL condition for your test.  The expression must be valid JQL, and you are performing a specific comparison for the first condition: comparing a substring of the summary to a defined string.

A work-around for this would be to use a smart value condition, an iterator over the subtasks, with conditional logic,  and a math expression.  For example:

• first value:

{{#=}}0{{#issue.subtasks}}{{#if(and(equals(summary.left(3),"IT&"),not(equals(status.name,"Done"))))}}+1{{/}}{{/}}{{/}}

• condition: greater than
• second value: 0

 

How that expression works is:

1. iterating over the subtasks in that parent issue
2. use conditional logic to check the summary and status
3. and when they match, add to the count
4. wrapping all of that in a math expression, with a default value of 0 at the front.

 

Kind regards,
Bill