Stop "Automation for Jira" to automatically become assignee

[Jesper Kjær]

I am trying to make some automations for our Jira and I wanted to create one when a sub-task got moved from "To Do" to "In Progress", the parent task would do the same. 

The transition automation works perfectly fine, but Jira automatically deletes the current assignee and changes it to "Automation for Jira", no matter what setting I choose. 

Am I doing something wrong here? I merely want the current assignee to still be the same assignee after the automation is triggered. 

Thanks!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You can't do it on Cloud - you need scripts or an addon to provide a post-function to do this, and you can't add one to Cloud.

[Jennifer Bursack]

Thanks for such a quick response Nic. Is Atlassian planning to support scripts or addons to Cloud in future?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I don't think they are, beyond the current list of supported addons. Although I suspect some more automated functions will be added via the automation plugins.