Custom field should copy from parent to child

[Ganesh]

Hi Community,

Is it possible to manage when a custom field should copy from parent when ever a subtask is created.

EX: when subtask is created, Description field should copy from parent to subtask!

Thanks in advance.

Best,

Ganesh.

[Ismael Jimoh]

Hi @Ganesh 

You will need an add on such as

• Automation for Jira,
• Scriptrunner or
• Power Shell

to build what you described. For automation for Jira, it offers options to copy field value from parent issue and you can specify what to copy.

As for the others you would need to write some scripts to achieve it where you get the parentIssue and in the workflow post function of create in child issue you parse the value to child issue.

In scriptrunner it should be something like:

Issue parentIssue
Issue childIssue = issue

childIssue.setDescription(parentIssue.getDescription())

I hope this helps.

[Ismael Jimoh]

Here is an example using scriptrunner: https://library.adaptavist.com/entity/copy-field-value-from-parent-issue-to-sub-task-upon-creation