Link All Subtasks to Parent Story

[DS]

Hi All,

I'm attempting to link all the subtasks of story to the story itself. Right now I've been going into the subtasks one by one ,then clicking "link issue" and then I link it to the parent story. Is there a way to make these changes in bulk to all my stories and their subsequent subtasks? I have hundreds of subtasks I need to link to hundreds of stories. Or if there is a field that I can add in the subtasks that automatically shows the name of the parent story, that can work too. Thanks!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Sub-tasks are already automatically "linked" to their parents - they're a part of them by design (and if you really want to get into the technical details, there's a hidden link in the link table too).

What problem are you trying to solve by adding a second issue-link to the sub-tasks?

[DS]

Oh i see. So what im trying to do is be able to see the parent story name somewhere in the subtask screen. Right now, clicking into a subtask doesn't show the parent name from what I can see and were having to open the parent story again to make sure we are making changes to the correct one. If that makes sense? Basically the goal is to have the parent story name somewhere within the subtask menu in the image i attached. This would allow us to tell at a quick glance what subtask for which story we are making edits to.

[Jack Brickey]

It actually is displayed in the breadcrumbs…

[DS]

I understand that but Im looking for the actual name of the story to be displayed. Not the DIL-26 and DIL-28 names.

[DS]

I got it somewhat working by adding a new field to the subtasks page and im now doing bulk edits to update the new field on each subtask with the story name. Is it possible to create an automation rule that takes the story name and populates the new field i created for each child subtask?

[Jack Brickey]

I see so you want the parent Summary field? I would probably look at automation and a custom text field.

[DS]

would you know how I would best automate this? Basically copying the summary (story) name and placing it into a field in all the subtasks of the story?

[Jack Brickey]

I’m tied up at the moment and it would take me some time to play with myself.

There are a number of posts in the community that might be helpful and there’s also the documentation I would highly encourage you to become familiar with; specifically smart values. With that said here is one community post that I found useful and may give you some tips on how to build your automation - Copy-Synch-parent-summary-field-to-linked-child-custom-field 

[DS]

That's okay thanks for your help. I was able to get it figured out by using these automation rules:

"Asset" is the custom filed I placed in each subtask. So it now takes the parent issues summary and places it in the custom field for each task.

[Jack Brickey]

Awesome work!