Sum up the story points of the stories and assign it to parent epic

P Vinod Kumar

I'm currently working on a rule in [your tool, e.g., Jira] that should trigger whenever the story points of any story change. The goal is to recalculate the sum of all story points for the parent epic and update the story points field of the parent epic accordingly.

I've written a rule that triggers without any errors, but unfortunately, the story points field of the epic is not getting updated as expected. Here are the steps I've taken:

• Created a rule that triggers on the change of story points in any story.
• Added an action to sum the story points of all stories under the parent epic.
• Set the calculated sum to update the story points field of the parent epic.

Despite these steps, the epic's story points field remains unchanged. Has anyone encountered a similar issue or can provide guidance on what might be going wrong? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

 

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @P Vinod Kumar 

In order to help you debug your rule please provide screen images for the following:

1. Your entire rule showing all the steps in order.
2. The details of each step
3. All the details from the rule audit log entry from a time when the rule ran and the Epic field did not update as you expected.