Epic progress calculations - child delete

Kaysaff Tal_qpuvj7

Hi ,

I have a custom field (text) call Progress. it calculated {{done_issues}}/{{issues}}*100. simple calculation.

I monitor the issue delete triger and could find the issue.parent.key with no problems.

caluculate: doneIssue

calculate: total issuess.

calculate progressPercentageString - no problem

I can use a releated branch as the trigger issue is deleted. and I can find a key to update the epic.

I Tried lookupIssues, Advance branching,JQL and all the combination could not find how to update the parent epic

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Kaysaff Tal 

This symptom is from a built-in, hidden behavior of branching on JQL: it automatically adds JQL to exclude the trigger issue to prevent errors / looping situations.  And so that added JQL fails because the trigger issue was deleted.

The fix is to use branch on Parent instead as the automation engine "knows" there is zero-or-one issue to branch to, and it is not the trigger, so it doesn't add the JQL behind the scenes.

Kind regards,
Bill