Clone a Task automatically including Subtasks

[Marius]

Hi,

I can Clone a Task automatically. That's ok.

But I want to clone the Subtask too and put the cloned Subtask to the cloned Task. In other words, I want to Clone a Task with its Subtasks. And when I click on the cloned Task, I want to have the Cloned Subtasks linked in the cloned Task, as in the original Task.

That's my actual automation:

[Mohamed Benziane]

Hi @Marius 

See the answer of Commodore, you need to add this value "{{createdIssue.key}} to the parent issue.

"https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/How-clone-a-task-and-its-subtasks/qaq-p/605089é

[Marius]

Sorry that will not resolve my problem.

I don't have a manually trigger. I have a planned rule, please see my screenshot.

But i take a look on your Link and the picture in your link is telling me, that I have to write "{{createdIssue.key}}" to the parent Issue field. But in the "Parent Issue" field i have a drop down to choose "Aktueller Vorgang" or "Triggervorgang".

What am I doing wrong?

[Mohamed Benziane]

It's not important which trigger you use. Even if you have the dop down list you can write the value that i give u and press enter to validate your value. I just test it

[Marius]

Ok thank you Mohamed, I've put the Information successfully in the field "parent issue".  But, now it becomes a little bit complicated.

Initial Situation:

Task 1 incl. Subtask 1 and Subtask 2

New Situation after running the rule:

Task 1 incl. Subtask 1 and Subtask 2 AND cloned Subtask 1 and cloned Subtask 2

Cloned Task 1

What i like to have:

Initital Situation:

Task 1 incl. Subtask 1 and Subtask 2

After running the rule:

Task 1 incl. Subtask 1 and Subtask 2

Cloned Task 1 incl. cloned Subtask 1 and cloned Subtask 2

Can you follow me?

The sticking point is, that Jira should clone the subtasks and put them to the cloned Task and NOT to the old Task. You know what I mean?

[Mohamed Benziane]

Weird, it working good in my instance. If the first task have 2 subtask then the new task have only two subtask too

Can you share your automation pls

[Marius]

Of course. Here you see my Automation and in the second picture you see the result after i runned the automation.

My Automation is unfortunately in German. I switched the language in Jira to English but the Automation part is always in German. I hope you can understand it anyway.

[Mohamed Benziane]

here my automation, it works fine. I think is the same as your (sorry i can't read german :) )

[Marius]

Hi Mohamed,

thank you for your Screenshot. Now here's my automation in english.

When I run the rule, there is an Error in the Logfile (see second picture).

The result is the same as yesterday: It clones all the Issues and Subtasks but did not add the cloned subtasks to the cloned task. It adds the cloned subtask to the origin task.

Maybe you can see a wrong setting?

//edit: I figured out: When i changed the "When: Scheduled" to "manually Triggered" then the rule runs correct.

So is there a wrong setting on my "When: Scheduled"?