Add Label to Trigger Issue When Issue is Blocked By another Issue

[eric.spink]

Hi,

Using Jira Automation, is it possible to Add a label to a trigger issue when you add a Blocked By Link to the trigger story?

My current rule is:

When Issue Link, Types Blocks

Edit Issue Field, add Label.

I also tried doing the following in Advanced Editing:

{
"update": {
"labels": [{
"add": "Blocked"
}]
}
}

When this rule runs, it only adds a label to the issue I am linking too. I am looking to only add the label to the issue I made the link in.

Thank you in advance.

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @eric.spink -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Please take a look at the description of that trigger in the rule editor:

Rule executes when an issue is linked to another issue. {{issue}} will always refer to the source issue, so if ISSUE-A is blocked by ISSUE-B, this rule will execute on ISSUE-B. To access ISSUE-A, use {{destinationIssue}}, and to access the link type, use {{linkType}} (e.g. {{linkType}}

To do what you ask, I think you add a branch on the destination issue, such as:

• trigger: issue linked, type blocks
• branch: destination issue
  • action: edit to add the label using the add/remove values option

If that does not work, you may instead need to make a JQL statement on the linked issue, and branch on that to perform the edit.

Kind regards,
Bill

[eric.spink]

This works. Thanks!