Transition parent to In Progress if child is In Progress

[April_Delay]

I feel like this response is close but the solution not working for me. 

Solved: How to trigger status change automatically for par... (atlassian.com)

I have a hierarchy of:

• Theme
• Capability
• Feature
• Epic
• Story

I want the Story transition to In Progress to bubble all the way up to Theme. I made a separate automation for Story to Epic that works but can't get it beyond that.

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

You should be able to this by using two automations, similar what is described in this article about dynamic looping in automation. You could use your first automation that you have to kick of the second one and in the web request include the issue key for the epic. In the second automation you would look up the parent issue, transition it, and then do a web request to itself with the parent issue key. This would then repeat itself until you get to theme.