Automation help needed: Transition Parent and Sub-Task when a specific sub-task is transitioned

Stacey Jones

Hello,

I'm hoping someone can help provide some guidance. I am new to Jira and automation. 

I am attempting to build out a process flow for a new board.

I am creating a series of sub-tasks when the Parent Story/Bug is added to a sprint: DEV, Code Review, QA, UAT, Deploy, Validation. 

I want to automate moving the sub-tasks to the appropriate status when the previous task is completed. 

I've created the following rule:

When the DEV sub-task is transitioned to "Done" > Update the Parent to "Code Review." Then update the "Code Review" sub-task to Code Review as well. 

The first step is working, the parent is moving to Code Review after the "Dev" sub-task is moved to done. The Code Review sub-task however is not updating. 

Any guidance or tips would be greatly appreciated!

 

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Stacey Jones -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Yes, and...to the suggestion from @Trudy P Claspill 

You could use a single branch to both the parent Story and the sibling sub-task for the "Code Review".  Assuming the trigger issue is a subtask, the JQL for the branch would be this:

key = {{triggerIssue.parent}}
 OR (
         parent = {{triggerIssue.parent}}
     AND issueType = "Sub-task"
     AND summary ~ "\"Code Review\""
    )

Then perform the issue transition action.

 

Kind regards,
Bill