Using Jira cloud Automation How do i copy the Assignee field to another custom field?

[Glen Brannigan]

Using Automation I want to copy the Assignee field from the Epic ticket  to the Custom Business Analyst field for all child tickets when they are created.

Thanks in advance for you help

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Glen Brannigan 

You could do that using the issue created trigger, a branch on JQL to the issues with the same parent as the trigger issue, and then an edit to copy the field using smart values.

To get you started on creating your rule, please refer to these documentation and example sources: 

• https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/guides/automation/overview#what-is-automation
• https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/automation-template-library#/rule-list?systemLabelId=all&page=1&pageSize=20&sortKey=name&sortOrder=ASC
• https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-issues/
• https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/use-advanced-search-with-jira-query-language-jql/

Kind regards,
Bill