How to copy the value of Account from an Epic to a task of that epic?

[Peter Ebraert]

Hello,

We are running the cloud version of Jira, and have the Tempo plugin and the Automation for Jira plugin.

Does anyone know how I can copy the value of the Account field (a custom field introduced by the Tempo plugin), from an Epic to all underlying tasks upon a change on the epic?

I did not find that field in the drop down proposed by Automation for Jira and suppose I need to do the copy by means of Jsson.

I made an automation rule and tried the following JSSON code, but got an error when the rule got fired.

{
"update": {
"Account": [
{
"set": {
"value": "{{triggerIssue.fields.Account.value}}"
}
}
]
}
}

[Petter Gonçalves · Accepted solution]

Hello Peter,

As mentioned in this answer, It looks like the correct construct is to make the id a string:

{
    "fields": {
        "Account": "234"
    }
}

 Can you give it a go and let me know if it works?

[Peter Ebraert]

This works. But now I need to be able to fetch a long based on the epic's account.
Any idea how to integrate that in my above JSSON?

[Peter Ebraert]

Found it... Big thanks mate!

{
"fields": {
"Account": "{{triggerIssue.fields.Account.id}}"
}
}

[Gabriella Szeltner]

Hi @Peter Ebraert @Petter Gonçalves  

Now I am trying to create an automation rule, so all the underlying tasks are taking the account name from the related epic.

I tried as follows: 
When: Value changes for account
For Linked issues
Then: Edit Issue Fields Account - Account: Copy Account from Epic Issue

However if I set an Account in an Epic no changes appear in the task accounts. 

Can you please help me, what rule should I set so our tasks have an account?

Thank you and best regards,

Gabriella