Automation: Updating custom field (Team) on a new story to match its Epic field (Team)?

Isabella Musial

Phoning a Friend! 

I have been trying to make this automation work for too many hours and need help! I know it can be done, but I am missing something. I found a bunch of examples, but none worked unfortunately! 

Steps: 

1. Create a new story under an Epic where the custom field (Team) is already populated
2. Upon creation, match that Team name with the parent issues' Team Name. 
3. New story created and has the custom field (TEAM) filled out.

Sounds easy.. but I am STUCK! 

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Isabella Musial 

First, your rule is branching to "Most recently created issue" but no issues are created during the rule; that is the purpose of that branch type.  The branch may be removed.

Next, your rule is referencing what appears to be a Created Variable by it has not been defined anywhere.

Assuming your "Team" field is customfield_10101, please try this:

• trigger: Issue Created
• action: Re-fetch Issue
• condition: Issue Type equals Story
• condition: Parent exists
• smart values condition: 
  • first value: {{issue.parent.customfield_10101.id}}
  • condition: does not equal
  • second value: leave this empty
• action: Edit Issue, using this JSON

{
  "fields": {
    "customfield_10101": "{{issue.parent.customfield_10101.id}}"
  }
}

 

Kind regards,
Bill