Epic Due Date Automation

[Elif Alverson]

Hello, 

I am looking for an automation when there is any updates/changes on the Epic's due date ; the rest of the child tasks and their subtask due dates will automatically change to the Epic's new due date.  I have this below and I am not sure what to put in the Due date section as the smart value. Thank you.

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi Elif,

I do that with two different rules - one that updates the children of the Epic and another one that updates the sub-tasks of the parent. 

[Elif Alverson]

@John Funk , thank you for your response.

I have one concern about having two automations . Let's say the task A assignee change the due date on a task A, all the task A subtask's due dates will change to the same due date.

The rest of the tasks associated with the Epic will have the same due date as Epic since their due date not changed on the task level. 

I need a method to make sure all the task due dates are the same as the main EPIC. 

[John Funk]

How do you prevent that from happening now? Can't a user change any date on any issue? 

[Elif Alverson]

This is a new project that we are setting for and it has been requested as a feature. 

[John Funk]

Yes, but having one rule or having two rules does not prevent a user from changing the due date for an issue anywhere in the chain. Correct? 

[Sebastian Krzewiński]

Hi @Elif Alverson 

Please click these 3 dots on the right on due dates value and choose COPY.
Then change "Issue to copy value from current issue" to "Issue to copy value from Epic issue"

Regards,

Seba

[Elif Alverson]

Seba, thank you for your quick response. This works for all the child tasks associated with Epic however it does not do anything to the subtasks under these tasks. Any idea, suggestions? 

[Elif Alverson]

It seems like this automation does not recognize there are subtasks under tasks based on the log below. None of the subtasks are listed.

[Sebastian Krzewiński]

For that you need to split this rule for 2 rules. One will be working for issues in epic and 2nd will be for subtasks.