automation to link status transition between parent and child issue

[jennyk]

In many occasions i find parent task is still in backlog while it's subtasks are in progress.

I don't want to manually change the status of the parent issue whenever i see it, so i want to build an automation that :

- If a certain sub-task's status is transitioned from backlog to in progress (or closed)

- and if its parent task's status is still backlog,

- the parent task's status automatically changes into in progress

is it possible? I want to to write up JQL to only filter the issues with subtasks,  but it seems like JIRA doesnt have a corresponding key to use.

[Marco Brundel · Accepted solution]

Hi @jennyk ,

Welcome on the Atlassian Community.

With automation for Jira it is possible to create a rule that If the sub-task moves to ‘In Progress’ then move the parent issue to ‘In Progress’ also.

See this example on the atlassian playground.

regards, 
Marco

[jennyk]

Thanks, it really helped!

[vincenzo.spatafora]

@jennyk,

I would like to ask if Is it possible also the way around?

I mean: to create a rule which upon Parent transition to "In Progress" automatically set its first sub-task also to "In Progress" (from Open, its original status).

Thanks in advance, Vincenzo. 

[vincenzo.spatafora]

Hi @Marco Brundel,

happy to see this post.

Is it possible also the way around?

I mean: to create a rule which upon Parent transition to "In Progress" automatically its first sub-task is set also to "In Progress" (from Open, its original status).

Thanks in advance, Vincenzo.