Automatic Issue transition based on linked issue status

[jonathan_ghellere]

Hello,

I'm trying to automate the following scenario.

I have a Jira project and I would like to build an project agnostic automation. This project which I will call "ProjA" will hold the automation for its issues based on the status of N projects issues, I will call these projects as "ProjN". It would be like "When a linked issue changes its state, change the state of my issue", but from ProjA perspective.

I would like to know if there's any way to do the following

1. ProjA has an Issue.
   - Issue 1
2. We clone this ProjA issue to a new one and then we move this issue to the backlog/ToDo of ProjN. This is manual.
   - Issue 1 is cloned by Issue 2
3. ProjA has an automation rule to check for the status of the "is cloned by" linked issue.
   - The rule says: "When Issue 2 changes its state to Done, transit the Issue 1 to Done."
4. Then, the automation runs and the issue 1 in ProjA is transited to Done
   - Issue 2 is Done, then Issue 1 is Done as well.

Why am I doing the above instead of not creating the automation rule in ProjN?

Because I don't want to do any manual work when a project is deleted or a new one is created, I would like the rule to be agnostic. The link between ProjA and N Projects will be detected automatically by the link between the Issues.

I don't see any When trigger saying like:

"When: the linked issue transition to some status"

So, this, the scenario I just explained, is even possible?

Thx a lot! : )

[JohnA · Accepted solution]

Hi Graham,

This isn't possible using a default install of JIRA but I believe it might be possible to create a much more specific user notification scheme using the JIRA Enterprise Message Handler plugin, so that is what I would suggest you take a look at because that should allow you to better restirct who does and doesn't receive notifications: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.javahollic.jira.jemh-ui

All the best,
John

[Graham Bakay]

Thanks John,

JEMH looks crazy powerful, but it's way out of our price range for what we would need it to do.

Graham.