Jira Automation to Copy All Issue Links from Children to Parent

Question

I am trying to have any work item link that is linked to my QA, Dev, and Requirements subtasks automatically linked to the parent task.

This isnt working, I believe because of my IF condition, its only copying links for work items that match the type "QA" "Dev" or "Requirements"  and not linking "Bugs" and "Stories" for example.

If I remove the IF condition it doesn't link anything tho.
What I am doing wrong?

Example of what I would like :

Parent: JIRA-12 (STORY)

* CHILD: JIRA-13 (DEV Subtask)
* CHILD: JIRA-14 (QA Subtask)

MISC ITEM: JIRA-15 (BUG)

create a link from JIRA-13 to JIRA-15 -> Automatically copy that link from JIRA-12 to JIRA-15

Alexandria (Lexi) Codd · Answer

bummer theres not a generic "copy all links solution"

thanks!

Bill Sheboy · Answer

First, I recommend not changing the rule when trying to understand its behavior, only changing it when it does not work as expected, and then testing further.

Based on the log you show, the link directions are impacting which issue is the "trigger / source" versus the "destination" for the linkage.  And, there is not one-rule-works-for-all solution for these cases.

For a possible solution when one wants to handle both possible link directions, the rule needs an if / else block to test the work item types, and then put the branch in side accordingly.  For example:

* trigger: issue linked
* if / else block with a condition testing the trigger issue's type* branch: to parent (of the trigger issue)
* ...handle this case

* else / if condition to test the destination issue's type* branch: using JQL to get to the parent of the destination issue
* ...handle that case instead

Alexandria (Lexi) Codd · Answer

sure thing, there just wasn't anything really special in this particular audit log

i did see the explanation of the directionality of the links in the rule trigger description, i was hoping to have the links copy regardless of directionality and that there was a simple rule template someone had out there that would just copy any links children had to parents.