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Use case

To keep parent issues and sub-tasks in sync it is often useful to automatically overwrite field values of sub-tasks with their corresponding values of the parent issue.

In our use case we want to automatically update two fields with their parent values:

  • Priority
  • Description


Use case details
Condition
Validator
Post functionUpdate issue fields
Complexity

BEGINNER


Configuration steps

Definition of basic (required) parameters

ParameterValue(s) / Steps to set value(s)

Target fields and Source values


  1. Target field: Description
  2. Value type: Field in current issue
  3. Source field in current issue: Parent's description
  1. Target field: Priority
  2. Value type: Field in current issue
  3. Source field in current issue: Parent's priority
Target Issues

Current Issue

This is how it's done

Screencast



This is how it should look like

WhereFinal configuration
Backend

Frontend