Can Automation be used to automatically populate the Component field from the Epic Link?

[Craig Robertson]

When creating a new Task in JIRA, I choose the Epic Link to associate the new task with it's parent epic. I would like the Component/s field on the new task to automatically populate with the Epic's Component/s field.

Can Automation be used to automatically populate the Component/s field from the Epic Link? If so, how can this be accomplished?

Does the component field change in real-time in the browser (client side)? or only after submitting the issue with the create button (server side)?

[andreas]

Hi Craig,

Yes this should be fairly simple to setup. Here's an example rule:

Here's how this works:

• When an issue is created
• We check that this issue is in fact a 'Task' and that it is linked to an Epic with the JQL condition
• Next we edit this issue using the 'Edit issue' action. Add the components field and simply select 'Copy from epic' in the dropdown

This will happen immediately *after* the task is created (server side).  JIRA doesn't provide any APIs to pre-populate the components field in the create issue dialog client-side.

Cheers,
  Andreas

[Shlomi Perets]

Hi  @andreas

Can we do the same When an issue is edited and now got an epic link (was blank at the creation)?

I didn't found how to do it with this plugin.

Thanks.