Set status of created subtask conditionally of parent

[Martin_Hombach]

Hey there,

we created a Kanban board in Jira and everytime we create a subtask on a task/story etc, this newly created subtask lands in the backlog.
But in our case we have a status called "selected for development" (which is basically after the "backlog" but before "in development" within our workflow) and we want newly created subtasks to land in that column.

There is a condition though. If the parent is still in the backlog while we are creating subtasks, the newly created subtask should (obviously) also land in the backlog.
So our condition would be "if a created task/subtask has a parent and the parent is not in the backlog, set the status on the newly created task/subtask to X".

I already tried around with the Jira automation and the smart-values, but couldn't get it to work and it also felt like this should be way easier (for example, when I wanted to compare the status, I saw the status inside the backlog is 10135?? And I wasn't able to get a working comparison with that number/string?).

I would so much appreciate if you could help me out here.

Thanks in avance

[Mark Segall · Accepted solution]

Hi @Martin_Hombach and welcome to the community!

Automation should be able to handle this. Here's an example:

Note - I don't have your statuses, so I used In Progress.  You would just change this to "In Development" for your rule.

[Martin_Hombach]

Hey and thanks for the response.

How dod you create the "And: PArent matches" node there? From the icon i guess it's JQL? Because I didn't see any "Parent matches" node available. How is that JQL looking like? Because that would solve the problem for me I think.

Thanks in advance

[Martin_Hombach]

OMG, I think I found it just now. That was a little bit hidden for me, but ok... Wil ltest this soon and report back if that worked, thanks so much already!