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Cannot Access “Add Comment” Action in Automation – Company-Managed Project

El May 1, 2025

Hi everyone,

I’m working in a Company-Managed Scrum project in JIRA Cloud and am trying to create an automation rule that adds a comment when an issue is moved to the “Blocked” status. However, I’m running into two issues:

In my automation rule setup, I only see Work Type transitioned instead of the standard Issue transitioned trigger.
Is this normal for company-managed projects, or is this a sign that my project is using a restricted template or renamed UI?

I’m unable to find the “Add comment” action in the list of available actions. Instead, I only see a “Comment added” trigger, which isn’t what I need.

I want to automatically post a comment when the issue transitions to “Blocked”, asking the assignee to fill out a custom field (Blocked Reason). But the inability to select “Add comment” is blocking that.

 

The project is Company-Managed, not Team-Managed.

I have full project admin access.

The custom field (Blocked Reason) is present and added to the right screens.

This is being done via Project Settings → Automation, not global automation.

What I Need Help With:

 

Why am I seeing Work Type transitioned instead of Issue transitioned?

How can I enable or restore the “Add comment” action in project automation?

Is this a permissions/configuration issue, or is my automation UI restricted by a custom project template?

 

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

 

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Trudy Claspill
Community Champion
May 1, 2025

Hello @El 

Why am I seeing Work Type transitioned instead of Issue transitioned?

Atlassian is changing their terminology from "issue" to "work item". "Work item" is the new way to refer to "issues".

How can I enable or restore the “Add comment” action in project automation?

Use the Comment on work item action.

Screenshot 2025-05-01 at 8.31.32 AM.png

There is no permissions issue, just a terminology change.

Trudy Claspill
Community Champion
May 1, 2025

It's here: 'Work' is the new collective term for all items you track in Jira 

Refer to the above article for info about the terminology change.

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