How to do automation: if all sub-tasks have status "Ready for deploy" - make parent task status same

[Kyrylo Nahornyi]

Hello community, please help me, i use regular functionality of jira automation and cant find how to make automation that  if all sub-tasks have status "Ready for deploy" - make parent task status "Ready for deploy" too

[Kalyan Sattaluri]

Hello @Kyrylo Nahornyi 

Probably many ways to do this but here is a suggestion.

Your trigger should check sub-tasks.

• Create new rule with trigger = issue transitioned, and choose Ready for deploy as status
• Next do an if condition and check if Issue Type = sub-task
• Then do another if condition, smart value check, and put: 
  • {{#issue.parent.subtasks}}{{#if(not(equals(status.name,"Ready for deploy")))}}true{{/}}{{/}}     
  • DOES NOT CONTAIN 
  • true
• Then do a branch -> For Parent
• do an if condition and check if Issue status != "Ready for deploy"
• Transition it to that status.

Please implement and share rule/audit log for us to review if any issues. Thanks!

[Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_]

Hi @Kyrylo Nahornyi and welcome to the Community,

the issue is, that even if you branch over the Child Issues, you won't be able to save the info whether each one is in the correct status or not. There isn't really the concept of variables in Automation.

Depending on your workflow, you could simply try to copy the Child's status to the Parent. If you have a restricted workflow the transition might not be available and the branch would run into an error. Hence the rule would only successfully run, if all children are in the correct state. But, again, this only works if you have very limited transitions in your workflow.