Automation Rule: Add a Cloned Epic parent to its Story

Emna Elleuch

How can I add an automation Rule to add the Cloned item as Parent.

 

basically, I have created a Rule, whenever a new Story is created, A new Epic will be added as clone to that Story. Now I would like to add a Rule/ or maybe edit the first one to edit the Story and add the Epic Cloned as parent to the Story?

 

is it possible to do that? 

 

Thanks in advance !

 

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Emna Elleuch 

Yes, that is possible.

However, do you always want to do this, for every single Story created?  Or, is there some set of conditions to decide when to also create the Epic?

 

When an issue is created in a rule, the smart value {{createdIssue}} may be used to access its fields.  And so after you clone your issue into the epic, the parent field could be set.

For example:

• trigger: issue created
• action: re-fetch issue  (The issue created trigger can fire so quickly that some data may not yet be available to the rule.  To prevent errors / unexpected behaviors, I recommend always adding the Re-fetch Issue action immediately after this trigger.)
• condition: issue type equals Story
• action: clone issue, to create the Epic
• action: edit issue (This will edit the trigger issue...)
  • setting the parent field to {{createdIssue.key}}

 

Kind regards,
Bill