Automation for Epic task fails to find its subtasks.

Melina Floril

Hi everyone,

I'm fairly new to Jira automation, and I was wondering if there’s any way for a subtask to find the epic task without having to go through the task.

The automation I want to create is about changing the due date of an epic task, which should then change the due dates of the tasks and subtasks if their due date is overdue or empty. The automation works well if both the tasks and subtasks meet one of the mentioned criteria. However, when the task does NOT have an overdue due date or an empty due date, but the subtask does, the automation fails to find the subtask and doesn't continue.

Is there something I might have overlooked, or is this just not possible?

Jack Brickey

Hi @Melina Floril , so the subtask isn't directly tied to the epic (grandparent).

if I understand your use case you basically want to update the due date of all stories in an epic when the due date of the epic is updated and you want that to flow through to the subtasks of those stories. Assuming so, I would probably create two rules:

1. Update story due dates if epic due date is updated
2. update subtasks if story due date is updated

the second rule will get triggered by the actions of the first but be sure to check the box in rule #2 details to allow it to be triggered by other rules