Automation rule to link issue type to Epic already linked to a Story

Question

If we supposed, i have a Story Linked to an Epic, and then i will add Task, Bugs or Dev/QA Stories and link them to the Story.

how can I add an Automation Rule to link all the items: Task, Bugs and Dev/QA Stories to the same Epic linked to that Story?

I would like to use the Clock Work App and get the time spent for all Epic so I think everything need to be linked to that Epic, and unfortunately sometime the team forget to link do the necessary updates

Thanks in advance for your help!

John Funk · Answer

See if this post helps you:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Jira-automation-set-variable/qaq-p/2748883

Emna Elleuch · Answer

Can you please share a screen how we can add this variable ?

John Funk · Answer

Hi Emna,

When you are linking the issues to the story, I assume that is by the issue linking functionality. So, you could create an automation rule based on an issue linked. And then add a branch for the linked issue. Under the branch Create a variable to identify the parent of the linked issue - something like {{issue.parent}}

Then use the variable to Edit the issue to update the parent field of the Bug, Task, etc.