React to issue changes in another project

Question

Hi, I am playing with Jira's workflows for first time and I have a problem to achieve a specific behavior.

I have two projects A and B. Lets say the project A is mine and have full control on it, B is completely decoupled from A, it doesn't know anything about A and I don't have any control on it.

Both projects use different workflows and screens but they use the same issue statuses: Open, In Progress, Blocked, Code Review, QA, Resolved

The basic relationship is:

* A depends on B
* B doesn't care about A

Because of this relationship we have issues in project A marked as blocked by issues in project B. By blocked I mean: status set to Blocked and added issue link of type 'blocked'.

What I want to achieve is to automatically reopen blocked tickets in project A once all their blockers (some of them might be from project B) gets resolved.

To achieve that I added Linked Transition post function to the QA -> Resolved transition in project A.

Here is the setup:

But... Since this post function is only in project A's workflow, blocked tickets will be reopen only if the blockers are from project A.

What I want to achieve should work for both projects, if I share the A's workflow to project B or if I clone the post function to project B. But... none of both options is possible because of one or another reason.

Instead of transition post function I should most probably use a transition trigger or something similar, but all triggers I see are only for crucible and I cannot find a way to define custom triggers.

Is there are a way to achieve such workflow only by editing project A's configuration and without touching the rest of the projects nor adding web hooks?

Thanks!

Petar Petrov_i7x4v3 · Answer

@[deleted]If I understand the Update on transition plugin correctly, I must add the Update issue post function to the QA -> Resolved transition in project B with settings to find all blocked tickets and change their status from Blocked to Open.

One of the main limitation I have is that I cannot touch the configuration of project B in any way.

If I setup that post function to project A, I will get the same behave as by using the Linked Transition post function. It will work only when resolving tickets from project A.

Am I missing something?

Petar Petrov_i7x4v3 · Answer

Thanks @[deleted]. I will take a look at the article and I will try your suggestion.

unknown · Answer

Hello @Petar Petrov

One way would be to use the Update issues post function from Update on transition for JIRA  to do the transition. You will need JQL (in the JQL query field) to find the issue to update. Use the linkedIssues() JQL function to find the right issue using Substitution variables (like %original_key%). Then use %jql_result_list% in the Issues to update field.

You can refer this article :

https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CW/pages/85459114/Transition+issues

If you have any questions on this, please raise a support request in our portal . We are happy to help you.

Thanks,

Swathi