How do I automatically trigger a status change on epic based on the status of its children

[Shashank Agrawal]

We are trying to automate our workflow. Here is what we would like to do:

We want to change the status of a parent issue (an Epic) when the status of one of its children changes. For example, I have an Epic which has 2 dev story and 2 uat story. If any of my dev story changes to "In progress" then Jira automation should scan if all children dev stories are In progress only then i want epic to change status to In progress and ignore UAT stories which are also linked to same Epic. 

Currently i can scan either one linked child or all. Am i doing anything wrong or is there a better solution to achieve this via Jira automations?

[Mark Segall · Accepted solution]

Hi @Shashank Agrawal - Here's an example of a rule that I use in one of my projects. When an issue transitions, it performs two epic branches (one for opening and one for closing).

[Shashank Agrawal]

In the first epic branch, it will scan all stories linked to epic.. i want to scan only 2 dev stories and ignore the rest of the stories (uat story) 

[Mark Segall]

How are the dev and uat stories delineated?