How do I view information gathered in fields during epic creation in other issue types?

[Sally Wheeler]

Under my epics, I have several issue types. What I would like to happen is when the user clicks on the issue (non-epic issue type), I would like the second tab to display information that was gathered during the epic creation. Can you please tell me how to accomplish this? Currently I have the a second tab with the fields under my view screen but when I ran a test run, all of the fields are empty in my other issue type.  In other words, I would like to display the data from epic custom field in other issue types.

Thanks

[Connor · Accepted solution]

Am I understanding this correctly?

• You have an Epic with multiple non-Epic issues linked to it. E.g. Story, Bug, Task, etc.
• You have custom fields added to your Epic and non-Epic issue types.
• While creating an Epic, you populate those custom fields on the Epic.
• When you view a non-Epic issue linked to your Epic, you want the value of the Epic custom fields to be visible on the non-Epic issue custom fields, preferably on a second field tab.

If that's correct, then I think you could do that via Jira automation. Here's a rough outline that might work, will likely need to be tweaked. 

Trigger: Issue updated

Condition: Issue type is one of {non-Epic issue types}

Condition: Compare two values, {{changelog.Epic Link}} does not equal Empty

Action: Create variable, var name: EpicLinkChangedTo, value: {{changelog.Epic link.toString}}

Condition: If {{EpicLinkChangedTo}} does not equal Empty

Action: Edit issue fields, select the custom fields, copy the value from the Epic issue. (Uncheck "Add to existing values" if you want the fields to be overwritten, leave it if you want to append.)

[Sally Wheeler]

Thank you for responding! I was able to use an automation rule to push the values and two different screens: one for editing (excludes fields which I do not want user to edit) and one for viewing (includes all fields). This accomplished what I needed!

[Connor]

You're welcome Sally, if  you can accept my answer than others will see that your question has been solved.