How to get the link type of a deleted link?

[Chloe Allison]

In my automation I want to remove a label when the "is duplicated by" link type is deleted from an issue. My trigger is When: Issue link is deleted. I thought I could do this by referencing {{destinationIssue.linkType}} but the automation returns this as nothing when I output this to the log. Is it impossible to get the link type of a deleted link? 

[Chloe Allison]

Hi Marc,

Thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately this automation never gets triggered when a linked issue is deleted for some reason.

[Marc - Devoteam]

HI @Chloe Allison 

I dug some more and found this information based on automation.

So ideally the Automation rule for this would simply be:

• Trigger: Issue deleted
• Action: Related issues (linked issues)
  • Action: Delete issue

However in practice this doesn't work, since the 'Issue deleted' trigger arrives after the issue has been deleted and removed from JIRA's search indexes.

[Marc - Devoteam]

Hi @Chloe Allison 

Welcome to the community.

It might that the following rule, will achieve this.

I just made a mock-up as I didn't have time to test it.