Jira Automation: When we add an issue to releases

[Aditya Singh]

I want to do some automation when we add issues to the releases.

[Walter Buggenhout · Accepted solution]

Hi @Aditya Singh and welcome to the Community!

You should be able to trigger that with Field Value Changed, selecting the Fix Versions field with the option value added:

Hope this helps!

[Aditya Singh]

Thanks @Walter Buggenhout , One more doubt how can I link the issue to another issue using smart values

[Walter Buggenhout]

It depends what issue you are trying to link to. In your screenshot, you are referring to the issue that triggered the rule (so essentially to itself). That does not make any sense. You need to be clear what issue you want to link to ...

[Aditya Singh]

I want to link this issue to a different issue but here there is no option to use smart values. So my question is how can I use it.

[Walter Buggenhout]

is part of "Trigger Issue" is doing exactly the same as if there would be something like is part of {{triggerIssue}}. You only need smart values if there is no other way of getting to the result you want.

The problem here is that you need to be specific about the issue you want to link your current issue to. This statement:

I want to link this issue to a different issue

is something a computer does not understand, unless you can identify which issue this is. Is it another issue in your release? Is it something else?

At this point, your automation rule (in human language) does the following:

1. It detects that an issue was assigned to a release (by updating the fix version field on that issue)
2. It tries to link this issue to itself (which is not possible)

So there must be a couple of gaps here.

[Aditya Singh]

I have a created a user story with the same name as the release version and now I want to link the trigger story to the user story which I created similar to release version {{issue.fieldChange.to}} .