Auto rules

[Shari Fitz-Patrick]

I have created an auto rule to close epics when all associated tasks are in a Done status.  It works but I am trying to figure out if it is possible to use this rule on old projects.  Cannot figure out if this is possible or how to do it.  Thanks

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi Shari,

Why do you mean by "old projects"? I assume you mean that nothing is triggering it since all of the tasks are already done and you want the Epic to be marked done - correct?

Can you share your current rule?

[Shari Fitz-Patrick]

Unfortunately we have old projects where the tasks, etc are in a Done status but the epic is still open  I can manually go through the projects but it would be great if there was a way that I could run this rule on those old projects.  Not sure if I am making any sense.  This is a copy of the Global Rule I created

[John Funk]

Okay, copy that rule and change the trigger to a Schedule Trigger and have rune 1 times a day or 1 times a week or whatever. I would add a JQL on the Scheduled part for KEY = ABC-123 where that is one of the Epics that is open but all children are closed, just to test it out first. Click off the box for Only include issues that have change. 

Save it and publish it. Then go ahead and click the Run Rule button. That should run it for the one you are testing. See if the results are what you want. If so, then maybe change the JQL to Project = ABC and issuetype = Epic so it only runs on a single problem to be sure it is still good. Then you can just leave the issuetype = Epic part and run it agains all of your projects. 

WARNING - I have not tested this so run it with just one first. 

[Ashley Hudson · Accepted solution]

Heya @Shari Fitz-Patrick ,

So regarding this automation rule, this should work for all projects? Please perhaps attach a screenshot of the automation rule? Also you can copy the rule and place it into any other project! :)

Kind Regards,

Ashley Hudson