Create a Sub-Task with Dynamic Summary Name

[jose.chaves]

Hi all. I'm creating an automation that should create a new sub-task every time a checkbox is ticked in a field.

I have a checkbox field called "languages" with ~29 different languages. I want the automation to create a new sub-task for each language ticked, with that languages name as the summary.

Example: Spanish, English and French are ticked, we get three sub-tasks

Task 1: "Spanish"

Task 2: "English"

Task 3: "French"

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @jose.chaves and welcome to the community,

You can create a rule the one below:

On the advanced branching place the following:

And during the issue creation, place the following:

You can delete the audit logs, since I placed them for testing purposes.

Let me know if you succeeded!

[jose.chaves]

Hi Alex, this indeed worked, thank you so much! 

One followup question.

The automation currently takes all the checked values and create the subtasks. If I were to uncheck any value or check a new one after the fact, it will create a new sub-task for all checked values at that moment, including the previous ones, creating some duplicates.

Do you know of any way to have JIRA Automation just create one sub-task per checked value once and not duplicate if the ticket is updated?

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

@jose.chaves before creating an issue you could:

• add a lookupissue component to search for issues connected to the same parent which have the same summary
• If the size of the lookup is greater less than or equal to zero
• Create the subtask