Features used to implement the example
- Write field on linked issues or sub-tasks
- Virtual fields "Issue status" or "Execute transition": writing into these fields the name of an status or the name of a transition respectively, makes an issue progress through its workflow, provided conditions and validators in the transition are satisfied
This example is considered outdated. Please head over to the one using our Transition issues post function here.
Example: Automatically transition sub-tasks to certain status when parent issue is transitioned to another status
We are going to explain how we can automatically move all sub-tasks to a certain status in sub-task's workflow, when parent issue is moved to another status in parent's issue workflow.
In this example we suppose that both parent's and sub-task's workflows have a status called "Cancelled". We want to automatically cancel all sub-tasks when parent issue is cancelled. We also suppose that there is a global transition called "Cancel Issue" in both workflows (parent's and sub-task's) which has as target status "Cancelled".
To implement this use case we insert Write field on linked issues or sub-tasks post-function in transition "Cancel Issue" in parent's workflow, using the following configuration:
Once configured, the transition looks like this:
Other examples of that functions
- Add and remove a single or a set of items from multi valued fields
- Automatically become watcher of every issue blocking an issue assigned to you
- Automatically close resolved sub-tasks when parent issue is closed
- Automatically resolve an epic when all its stories are resolved
- Compose dynamic text by inserting field values in a text template
- Copy "Due date" into a date type custom field in a linked issue if it's greater than current issue's "Due date"
- Copy attachments from one issue to another
- Create a comment in sub-tasks when parent transitions
- Creating a Jira Service Desk internal comment
- Creating a Jira Service Desk internal comment on linked issues
- Execute transition in epic
- Make linked issues, sub-tasks and JQL selected issues progress through its workflows
- Moving sub-tasks to "Open" status when parent issue moves to "In Progress"
- Sum sub-task's "Time Spent" (work logs) and add it to a certain linked issue
- Transition sub-tasks when parent is transitioned
