Can a parent issue ( Epic or Story ) auto advance on workflow if all sub-tasks are transitioned?

[Trevor Miller]

New to Jira Software and trying to setup my workflows and possibly migrating habits from MS Project.. Lets say I have a request from sales to provide estimate on a custom mod for a client.  

I have a KanBan board with a workflow that indicates its In Progress , Estimate Provided, Estimate Completed.

I have configured a Story that may read "Estimate XXXX - Customer #" and beneath that created two sub-tasks ( could be 10 ).  "Programming Estimate" and "QA Estimate".   

The thought was grouping the actual work items under the single story would be proper / easier to track if we had a larger list of tasks but it seems that is not necessarily the case.  I read documentation where you can link them and handle the estimate rollup etc but if the programmer and the QA person move their tasks in the workflow, the parent gets left behind.   After a few hours of searching documentation and reading articles on the "Old" Jira vs "next-Gen" I figured id seek direction from the user base.   Can anyone provide any guidance here and "Don't bother with parent tasks in Jira" is an acceptable answer if there isn't really any functionality there. 

[Taranjeet Singh]

@Trevor Miller If you are looking to auto-transition a parent task like "Story" to Done/Completed status after all its sub-tasks have been marked or transitioned to Done/Completed status, you will need to use a 3rd party add-on that provides JIRA workflow automations. One such plugin is "JIRA Misc Workflow extensions". You can explore more about it on Atlassian Marketplace here: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/292/jira-misc-workflow-extensions?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

And, for this particular use case, you can also look at the below similar community post, to see if it provides you the solution of your queries:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/automatic-transition-on-parent-issue-when-all-sub-tasks-are/qaq-p/574212

[Taranjeet Singh]

@Trevor Miller Any success in resolving your issue?

[Trevor Miller]

Sort of...  I have been noticing a trend that a high number of desires require add-ons.  For now I am trying to manage tasks without the hierarchy and will see what happens as the backlog grows if its cumbersome or not.  If so I will revisit your suggestions. Thank-you