If a change is made to an automation, does it populate on the epic?

Keyshla Coriano Parrilla

If a change is made to an automation, does it populate on an existing epic? Or would a new epic need to be created in order for the automation to work?

Context:

I created an automation so that when an epic is created, stories and tasks automatically populate. However, one of the stories did not populate as the JSON object was not correct. This was updated to the following:

{

"fields": {

"Epic Link": "{{issue.key}}" }

}

 

After making the updated on the field, the story is still not populating within the epic. Can someone please provide guidance?

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Keyshla Coriano Parrilla 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Whenever you ask for help with an Automation Rule, it is vital that you provide screen images that show the entire automation rule. It is very hard for us to help you without that information.

If the rule uses the "Issue Created" trigger, it will only be triggered when a new issue is created. Such a rule will not run against existing issues after the rule has been updated. You would need a different type of rule for that; one that selected the Epics you wanted to update and included just the steps for the updates you want to make.