Automation Rule: Link multiple recently created stories within the same epic

[Andi Klaeusli]

Dear community,

I intend to link multiple recently created stories of the same epic, thereby ensuring that all of these stories follow a sequential workflow. In other words, Story B cannot be started before Story A has been completed, etc. To this end, I'm trying to create an automation rule which seeks to block Story B until Story A has been finished ("Story B blocks Story A"/"Story A is blocked by Story B"). The rule is triggered when a new issue has been created. Then, a condition checks if the new issue type equals a "story" and if the issue's summary contains a particular substring (=Story B). (see print-screen)

While the trigger and the conditions run smoothly, the Branch JQL, by which I'm looking for the Story B within the same epic as Story A, does not work. It seems as if the parameter "parent" causes the trouble, at least according to the error message in the audit log:

I've already tried to spare the quotation marks or to use a created smart value variable in the JQL query instead of the smart value, but to no avail.

What do I miss here? Do you have any general suggestions how to approach this task of linking stories or do you have any specific suggestions which "bring this automation rule to life"? 

Thank you in advance for your advice and support!

[João Nunes · Accepted solution]

Hi Ali, how are you today?

The native option we have on Jira/Confluence to get that information is by checking the Last active. We can see that information by navigating to the User management by click on the three line menu at the left menu bar then Site Administration. Please, check this page for more information.

Let me know if that helped you.

Kind regards,
JOÃO NUNES
Jira Support Team

[Ronald Stroomberg]

When I go to the user in User management, and look up the user I see

Has site access
No activity

While this user creates and updates tickets in Jira every day.

So are there problems that de activity is not updated?

Regards Ronald

[FredrikLiljemark]

we have the same issue... not updating.