How to create tasks linked to epic and inherit from multi select

[Ben Reinhardt]

Hello,

I am trying to have an automation which from the number of entries in a multiselect list created new tasks and then inherits 1 entry per task from the parent.

For example:

The multi select list contains languages, and there should be X new tasks for X entries in the list.  This works.

Then, the 1st entry in the list should be copied to the 1st new task.  The 2nd entry in the list should be copied to the 2nd new task. This does not work, it copies all entires from the parent to each child.

Thanks for your help

[Fernando Eugênio da Silva · Accepted solution]

@Ben Reinhardt , Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Here's the automation I believe you need.

Basically, it was necessary to open a branch to use Epic itself as a reference and a smartvalue to associate the new task created with Epic.

Here is the automation print:

Follow this same example and just change the field "Languages" in Trigger, Condition and Action to your custom field called "TargetLanguages".

This works fine for me. Hope this helps.

Regards,

Fernando

[Ben Reinhardt]

Hi Fernando,

Thank you for your help but I don't think this is exactly what I am looking for because I think it will make 1 new task and I need to make many.

Here is an example:

- Epic Name: Test
- TargetLangauge(s): English, French, German

The result should be 3 new tasks:
- Task Name: Test - English
- TargetLanguage(s): English
- Task Name: Test -  French
- TargetLanguage(s): French
- Task Name: Test - German
- TargetLanguage(s): German

I hope this makes it more clear and thank you for your help.

[Fernando Eugênio da Silva]

@Ben Reinhardt 

Thank you for explaining.

If you intend to create multiple tasks, you will need to add a creation event for each of the tasks (English, French, German).

This is an example of how you're going to be able to split this.

For each TASK you will create a BRANCH in your automation and define a condition of "If the Languages field has any of the values", then you define the value "English".

It is important to use the condition "Contains of" and not "Equals". Then just go out replicating for the other options. You create for all TargetLanguages, as you are including conditions for each, if one of them is not true, the task will not be created.

See the result:

[Ben Reinhardt]

Perfect, thank you very much.  Well done.