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Use case
Often it is necessary to keep parent issues and sub-tasks in sync. To do so, the following automation rules comes with a handy configuration that automatically updates specific sub-tasks' field values with their corresponding values of their parent issue.
In our use case we want to automatically update the priority field.
Field Changed Event
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Add a Trigger → Field Changed Event
Field*
Choose Priority
Changed to*
Choose Any value
Issue Selector
Add Selector → Issue Selector → Sub-tasks
No further configuration needed.
Update Field
Next to Issue selector click on Add → Action → Update Field
Field*
Choose Priority
Update to*
Choose Value returned by parsed expression
Parser Expression*
%{trigger.issue.priority}
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Screencast
This is how the configuration above should look on your screen
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