Creating Subtasks dynamically based off number field

[Nick Martin]

Is there any way I can tell Automation for JIRA to create (X) number of sub-tasks based off a number field in the primary ticket?

[andreas]

Hi Nick,

You can't use the number directly, but you could approximate this behaviour with an else/if type rule. Something like this would work:

• Trigger: Some trigger
• If block with a JQL condition: "Number field" <= 1
  • Create 1 subtask
• else-if block with JQL condition: "Number field" > 1 and "Number field" <= 5
  • Create 5 subtasks
• else-if ...

Now this would only work obviously if you have only so many combinations.  If you need to create exactly the same number of sub-tasks as the number field always (and say there could be thirty), then this would be very tedious. 

We have https://codebarrel.atlassian.net/browse/AUT-81 open to track this, but we've got quite a few higher priority items in our backlog currently.

Cheers,
Andreas

[Nick Martin]

Thanks Andreas

[Deleted user]

@andreas - Any more news on this? This is a much-needed feature for teams with many components.