Automation: How to make an epic link on a story also become a linked issue

[Marc Isikoff]

We are using Jira Service Management Server in our cloud, so not Jira Service Manager Cloud.

When a user updates a story and adds an epic link, we want to also make the epic a linked issue.

We tried triggering when value changes for Epic Link and if it's the right issue type:

{"update": {

   "issueLinks": [

        {

          "add" : {

                     "type" : {

                     "name" : "belongs to Epic"

          },

         "outwardIssue": {

         "key": "{{issue.epic.key}}"

        }

       }

      }

     ]

   }

 }

The error we get with this is "No issue link type with name 'belongs to Epic' found.)

Although we can manually link using that link name.

[Fabian Lim]

Hi @Marc Isikoff

The syntax looks good.  I would check with the admin whether the name "belongs to Epic" is for the "outward" or "inward" relationship.  That could be the problem.

Cheers,

Fabian