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How to sum a custom field value from child issues to epic parent

Alon Shoham_w1572v

Hello,

I'm trying to find the smart value that describes a parent's child issues.

I have created an automation that sum the values of a custom field, from sub-tasks to their Stroy/Task parent.

Now, I'm trying to level it on step up, and take the same value I got for Story/Task and sum it up to the epic level (taking all the value from all the stories/tasks under the epic).

You can see the automation that takes from sub-tasks to story/task (in the answer below) - which works perfectly.
I can't find a way to take it one level up to epic.

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Alex Koxaras -Relational-

Hi @Alon Shoham

I wrote an article a while back about adding original estimate to an Epic. You could use this as a starting point an replace your original estimate with your variable https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-articles/Calculate-the-sum-of-original-estimates-of-all-issue-types-to-an/ba-p/1660572

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Alon Shoham_w1572v

Automation:

Alex Koxaras -Relational-

Hi @Alon Shoham

Alon Shoham_w1572v

@Alex Koxaras -Relational- Thank you so much for your answer.

The automation failed in the 'Advance' JSON format.

Those are the fields and hirarcy I have, If you could suggest me how to write the JSON format I would appreciate it a lot!

1. In every Task/Story there is a field called "Effort estimation - DS".
(The 'Lookup issues' is success to find all the tasks/stories under certain epic)

2. In every Epic there is a field called "Effort estimation - DS".

I want the automation to sum the values from "Effort estimation - DS" in all the tasks and stories and present the total sum in the Epic's "Effort estimation - DS" field.

That's how I wrote the JSON:

{
"fields": {
"Effort Estimation - DS": {
"Effort Estimation - DS" : "{{lookupIssues.Effort Estimation - DS.sum}}"
}
}
}

Alon Shoham_w1572v

Alex Koxaras -Relational-

Hi @Alon Shoham

Your JSON should be something like:

{
  "fields": {
     "Effort Estimation - DS" : "{{lookupIssues.Effort Estimation - DS.sum}}"
  }
}

You had an extra field for a strange reason. Maybe you got confused with my automation and the "time tracking" field, which is a special bundle type of field.

Try the JSON above and let me know. If it fails, see the audit log and paste the message.

Muhammad Moazzam Hassan

is it working fine?

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