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How to create automation for interconnected items on the timeline with dependencies (blockers)?

Hernani Júnior_43yv3c

Hello, everyone!

I’m trying to set up an automation in Jira so that when the start or completion date of a blocking task is changed, the date of the blocked task is automatically adjusted. Can anyone share a step-by-step guide on how to do this?

If there is any official documentation or practical examples that could help me, that would be great!

Thank you in advance for any guidance!

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Trudy Claspill

Hello @Hernani Júnior

More information is needed.

You said:

when the start or completion date of a blocking task is changed, the date of the blocked task is automatically adjusted. Can anyone share a step-by-step guide on how to do this?

When the start date of the blocking task is changed, how does that affect the dates of the dependent task?

When the completion date of the blocking task is changed, how does that affect the dates of the dependent task?

What is your level of experience with creating Automation Rules?

Hernani Júnior_43yv3c

I understand automation well, but I'm less familiar with the timeline function. Recently, I created blocking lines on the project timeline in Jira. I would like the date of the blocked task to automatically adjust when the date of the blocking task is changed. However, these blocks were configured directly on the timeline.

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Trudy Claspill

Hello @Hernani Júnior

Creating a dependency between two issues in the Timeline should create an Issue Link between them. If you look at the details of those issue you should see information in the Linked Issues section for each one indicating its relationship with the other. Please confirm that is the case. Example:

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In the image you shared I don't see issue keys in the relationship box. In the Plans Timeline it is possible to add issue to the timeline, but the issues don't really exist until you Review the Changes and commit them to the related Projects.

Are the two issues in your image unsaved new issues?

Automation rules cannot be run against issues that are not yet committed/created in the project.

Hernani Júnior_43yv3c

I have two epics that, within my instance, represent phases of a project. Their keys do not appear because I took a screenshot of the timeline, and I’m not sure if the keys showing in the screenshot are relevant to my question. What I really need is to automatically change the dates of the linked items.

How would you build an automation to automatically change the dates of the linked items? Using what is in the screenshot as an example, how would you make it so that when the date of CS-85 is changed, the date of CS-22 is adjusted proportionally with the days added to the original date?

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