automation rule that spans multiple boards

Rory Scherer_m7l1d9

summary:  how can we create an automation rule that spans multiple JIRA projects?

details:

• we have 2 JIRA boards; Ideas Intake and Software
• assume the list of Ideas & Features in the Ideas Intake board matches the stories/tasks/bugs in the Software board
• within the Ideas Intake board, we want the Ideas & Features field titled 'Next Steps' that has a drop list of 8 preselected options, to automatically populate/change depending on what populates the field 'status' (which contains 4 preselected options) from stories/bugs/tasks in the Software board

if possible, we also want to be more specific as our Software board is divided into different sections; To Be Refined, To Be Sized, Backlog, and Current Sprint.  Can the automation rule also indicate in our Ideas Intake board which of those 4 sections it is currently in?

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Rory Scherer 

I just have some question to clarify your scenario.

What type of project is Ideas Intake? It doesn't appear to be a Software project. I suspect maybe it is a Jira Product Discovery project. You can find  the Project Type information on the View All Projects page under the Projects menu.

Also please provide the Type information for the Software project. It looks like it may be Team Managed Software vs. Company Managed Software, which may be important to the solution.

The Software board appears to be a Scrum board where the To Be Refined and To Be Sized "sections" are sprints that you haven't started. I would assume then that Backlog is the actual Backlog outside of any sprint. Do you ever have more than one sprint active in the board at the same time?

Do the items in Ideas Intake correlate 1 to 1 with an item in the Software project?