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How to automatically assign dates inherited from tickets to an Epic ?

Aline Veyradier

Hello,

I want to automatically assign the earliest startdate and most recent end dates of child issues to an Epic.

I'd like to achieve the result shown below (see screenshot), but by filling Start date and Due date fields.

2025-03-14 17_02_18-TSS Scrumboard.png

I am trying something with {{issue.epic.endDate.max}} and {{issue.epic.startDate.min}}

but it doesn't work.

Thanks for your help

Accepted answers

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Aline Veyradier

It sounds like you are working with an Automation Rule. Please show us screen images of the rule you have constructed, and the details of the step where you are trying to set the start and end date in the Epic.

There are several posts that discuss setting the dates in Epics based on the dates in the child issues. Perhaps you can extrapolate your solution from the information provided in those posts.

https://support.atlassian.com/automation/kb/how-to-update-parent-issue-start-date-and-due-date-from-child-issues/

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Cloud-Admins-discussions/Set-Epic-Start-and-Due-Date-to-earliest-latest-Child-Dates/td-p/2353100

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-questions/Parent-epic-set-start-and-due-date-on-base-of-child-tasks/qaq-p/2299980

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Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Aline Veyradier

There are several posts that discuss setting the dates in Epics based on the dates in the child issues. Perhaps you can extrapolate your solution from the information provided in those posts.

https://support.atlassian.com/automation/kb/how-to-update-parent-issue-start-date-and-due-date-from-child-issues/

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Cloud-Admins-discussions/Set-Epic-Start-and-Due-Date-to-earliest-latest-Child-Dates/td-p/2353100

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-questions/Parent-epic-set-start-and-due-date-on-base-of-child-tasks/qaq-p/2299980

John Funk

Hi Aline,

What is triggering the automation? You probably want to use {{issue.parent.End date.max}} but it will depend on the actual rule.

Aline Veyradier

Hello @John Funk

I'm thinking of using Manually triggered or Scheduled.

Aline Veyradier

Thank you, @Trudy P Claspill !

I've tried this solution : https://support.atlassian.com/automation/kb/how-to-update-parent-issue-start-date-and-due-date-from-child-issues/

but it's hard to know if it's working, as there seems to be a problem with the automations at the moment.

I'll check it out tomorrow.

John Funk

But what what issue would it trigger on? Or would be in the JQL of the scheduled trigger?

Aline Veyradier

Hello @Trudy P Claspill ,

It worked, but I had to modify the field {{lookupIssues.duedate.max}} and remove the space between "due" and "date" as already mentioned in another post (https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Cloud-Admins-discussions/Set-Epic-Start-and-Due-Date-to-earliest-latest-Child-Dates/m-p/2688070#M11847)

2025-03-19 10_05_24-Générateur de règles - Automatisation.png

Thank you so much for your valuable advice, which has saved me an enormous amount of time !

Best regards

Aline

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