How to compute the total story points assigned to a particular epic?

[Prasad_Biddika]

How to compute the total story points assigned to a particular epic, can we implement rule using automation for Jira or some other way.

[Hariharan Iyer]

Hi @Prasad_Biddika ,

This should be possible using automation as described here - https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-questions/Sum-of-Story-Points-for-lookup-issues-for-an-Epic-doesn-t-give/qaq-p/2570910

You can either log the total story points as in that answer, or set it as the value for a field in the epic, or even add a comment like "total story points changed to xxx" in the epic.

Hope that helps!

[Prasad_Biddika]

@Hariharan Iyer  - we don't have look up issues action 

[sumukh]

Hi @Prasad_Biddika ,

only one way can be done is Automation,

Using JQL might provide the filter issues based on criteria, including Epics.

Automation Rules can be used this feature to calculate the Story points assigned to the Epic.

Steps as Follows:-

Create a custom Field : Create a custom field in jira to store the total story points for each epic. You can name this field totally like Total Story Points.

Set up Automation : Create an suto rule that triggers whenever an issue is updated. The trigger condition should be when an issue linked to an epic is updated, created, or transitioned.

Actions : When trigger condition is met, the automation rule should perform the follwoing action

1. use JQL to search for all the issues that are linked to the specific epic.

2. Calculate the story points from the story points field of each linked issue.
3. Update the total story points custom field of the epic with the calculated total.

Testing : Test the rule to ensure it calclulates the story points perfectly. 

You can try out these steps and implement to compute the tottal story points assigned to a particular epic in Jira.

[Prasad_Biddika]

@sumukh please chare screenshot