How can I update the status of a linked issue after the main issue changed status?

[Meital]

Hey,

I have 1 Epic in a Software project and 1 Task in a Business Project. I would like to close automatically the Task on the Business project once the Epic in the software project is closed. Any idea how can I do that?

I'm using JIRA Software on a server version.

Thanks

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Not easily - the operation is either a simple "copy" from one field to another, or in the more painful case (where both fields have data you want to keep), it's a merge.

I would be strongly tempted to script this and keep it simple - write a short script-runner chunk of code that would grab the content of the custom field and poke it in at the end of the existing system-environment field.   But I don't know if that's suitable for you (if you've only got one or two merges to do, then that gets your data together and you can ask your humans to tidy it, but if you have hundreds, it might be the wrong approach)