How to automate assignee on Epic to value of User Picker custom field?

[Julia]

Hello Experts! 

The workflow is: An Initiative gets moved to the bugtail status, and that automates the creation of an Epic. I want the assignee of the new Epic to = the value of the "Program Manager" custom field which is a user picker (single user) from the trigger initiative. Can anyone help? Thanks

[Chris Buzon · Accepted solution]

In the same automation rule that creates the new Epic you can add an additional component that will copy field values from the parent issue into the child issue.  You'll possibly need to know the custom field ID of the Program Manager field to make that happen.

[Chris Buzon]

Here's what I mean - the UI is sometimes a bit hard to work with, but once you select "Copy from Parent" from the ... menu, you can re-select the Menu item and it shows you this other interface.