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Automate assigning a custom field to the assignee field?

Bobby Moyini

Is there a way to pull a custom field from the main issue like “Assigned Tester” to populate the Assignee field within a subtask?

I have an automation that creates several subtasks and I need the Assigned Tester field from the the issue to populate the assignee of the subtask. Right now I'm triggering the automation manually based on the person who triggers the automation (which is the assigned tester right now). I have attached an image of what I have right now, any help would be awesome! Assigned Tester.png

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Ryan M_71d62p

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Bhanu_ihv087

Hi @Bobby Moyini

For this, Can I know when the sub-tasks are created? During a Workflow transition?

Ryan M_71d62p

more info on advanced editing and smart values here https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/advanced-field-editing-using-json/

Bobby Moyini

I trigger them manually for now and have it check to see if assigned tester exists before it goes through the workflow to make sure unassigned tasks aren't created. The triggers for automation appear under the actions menu in the specific Jira task you are looking at (on the top right).

Manual trigger.png

Bhanu_ihv087

Great!

Trigger: Manual

Condition: Assigned Tester is not Empty

Action: Create Subtask

Choose fields to set - Assignee Field
Select Copy from Parent
Click the Field to copy from
select the Assigned Tester Field.

Bhanu_ihv087

Great!

Trigger: Manual

Condition: Assigned Tester is not Empty

Action: Create Subtask

Choose fields to set - Assignee Field
Select Copy from Parent
Click the Field to copy from
select the Assigned Tester Field.

Bobby Moyini

I will try this in the AM and see if it works!

John Funk

This is the solution. ^^^

Bobby Moyini

Action: Create Subtask

Choose fields to set - Assignee Field
Select Copy from Parent
Click the Field to copy from
select the Assigned Tester Field.

I don't get the bolded options after selecting copy from parent.

Bobby Moyini

@Ryan M I cant get this to work for some reason using the smart values. It keeps telling me in the log "Assign issue: Issue was already unassigned" and leaves it unassigned.

Not sure if I'm taking the most direct path to make this , but this is what I have.

Unassigned Issue.png

Ryan M_71d62p

Bhanu_ihv087

Click the three ellipses next to the end of the Copy from Parent.

Select Copy

Click on the text Copy from and you will see the following to select the field to copy the value from.

Screenshot 2024-10-09 at 21.41.52.png

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