How to create child issues for existing EPICs in JIRA using automation rule?

Saili

I had created an Automation rule, when triggered, a new child issue gets created:

This is working fine.
But I now want to create child issues for EPICs that are already there in the project using Automation. Is there any possibility of making this happen?
Please let me know
Thanks in advance

Walter Buggenhout

Hi @Saili,

If you create a rule with a scheduled trigger, you can add a JQL filter to the trigger. If you want to get a list of all epics in your project, that could be:

Project = "Your Project" AND issuetype = Epic

 adjust the JQL so you get just the list of epics you want to add issues to.

Then, if you add a create issue action to that trigger, it will be executed against every single issue retrieved by your filter. 

Hope this helps!