How to have title on Epics and Child issue match automatically

[Luis Dominguez]

How can I create a title in the EPIC and have the same title auto populate for each child issue in order to avoid having to manually enter the tile each time?

[Fernando Eugênio da Silva]

@Luis Dominguez 

For that, you will need to create an automation following this idea.

I did tests and it worked perfectly here.

Basically you will create an issue with any summary and in the create screen, you will need to point to it already Epic.

Once the issue is created containing the epic link, Jira will copy the Epic Summary value to the child issue

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Fernando

[Luis Dominguez]

Hi Fernando

Thank you for reaching out. 

I tried it and the problem is that EPIC names cannot be blank when creating them, so I had to enter a letter or symbol. My goal was when I created an EPIC, I wanted 6 issues to autogenerate along with the same names matching. Would that make a difference?

[Luis Dominguez]

Here is what I got

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[Fernando Eugênio da Silva]

@Luis Dominguez 

Yes, this is possible. See automation:

You will need to use the trigger of "Issue created" and the condition of "Issue type" > Equals > Epic;

Then add a branch for Current Issue;
For each issue you want to create, you must add an ACTION with "CREATE ISSUE". If you wanna 6 issues, you need to configure 6 actions inside branch

Select the project and issuetype;
In Summary change the value to "Copy from trigger issue";
And add the field "Epic link" and in it also put the "Copy from trigger issue".

This will ensure that the issues will have the summary copied and will be automatically added to the new Epic created.

Regards,

Fernando