Adjust parents due date automatically to the nearest due date of one of the sub-tasks

[Sharon Freij]

Hi everyone, hope someone can help me.

Within my jira project, I have several Stories, Tasks and sub-tasks. With Jira automation, the story/task will be automatically progressed when all of the sub-tasks are done (for example). 

But now I'm facing an issue which I'm not able to solve. Hope that someone within this community can help.

I would like to make the due date of the parent dependent on the nearest/shortest due date of their sub-tasks. For example:
Story --> due date is empty during creation
Sub-task 1 --> due date is 01.04.2021
Sub-task 2 --> due date is 06.04.2021
Sub-task 3 --> due date is 31.03.2021

The due date of the parent should also be 31.03.2021 automatically.

How to do that?

[pborkowski · Accepted solution]

Did you try using "Issue Key" mapping? It should force import to create issues with specified Issue Key

[DI2E Licensing]

WOO HOO! THANKS. Works like a charm. And not nearly as hokey. ;)

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You'll need to pad the numbers and then delete after importing dud issues.

If you have ABC-1, ABC-1, ABC-2, ABC-5, then you need to import ABC-1, ABC-2, ABC-3, ABC-4, ABC-5 and delete ABC-3 and 4 afterwards.

[DI2E Licensing]

So I had thought of this and thought, "that's just hokey". But it does work. So thanks for suggesting the hokey. :)