Can you automatically assign new issue to an Epic?

[Tudor Hofnar]

I'm wondering whether there is any way to automatically assign all Issues that are created for a project to an Epic in that project. So when an Issue is created and assigned to 'Project A' it will also automatically be linked to an Epic 'Test Epic', is this possible at all?

If it is not possible any ideas how I can go about developing something like this?

Thanks!

Tudor

[Rhys Diab _Rogue Wombat Software_]

Hi Tudor,

A bit late to the party here but one way you can do this is using the plugin Agile Docs.

This plugin allows you to create your epics, stories and tasks in a nested google doc and automatically creates relationships between them.

In your example, in order to create an issue which automatically has a relationship with a parent Epic, which sits within a specific project, you create a dotpoint under the Epic you want to link to like below:

In the above example, the issue 'A story' belongs to the Epic 'This is an epic'.If I open up the issue, you can see the relationship with the Epic:

Cheers,

Rhys.

[Bill Latham]

Epic Link is a custom field, so you have to use the Update Custom Field function.  Also, when you choose the epic link, make sure you use the Epic Link's actual issue number, not its name (e.g., MYPROJ-55).

[Marlene Vitale]

Can this be done with just a query if you don't know the name or the epic are being created automatically by some other means like Jira Automation?

[Christian Czaia [Decadis AG]]

Hey,

I would try to work with the JIRA suite utilities plugin. You can create a post function on the create issue transition to update the custom field "epic link"...

Cheers

Christian

[Minh Vo]

Hi Christian, how did you do that?..field "Epic link" or any Epic fields is not present when using Add post function -> Update Issue field

[Brock martin]

Is this working when the issue is being emailed.

I have the "Epic Link" Custom field value being populated with correct issue number on Create which works when creating ticket in JIRA, but when emailing the issue in using JIRA incoming mail handler it does not populate the custom "Epic Link" field with the value on create.

Anyone else seeing this?

[DT Ops]

Did any one get the answer for this? I am also not having any option for Epic when emailing issue with incoming mail handler.