How can I automatically create a story on epic transition?

[andreas]

So here is what we're trying to do: when an Epic issue type is transitioned to a certain status, we need it to create a Story issue type, and here's the kicker: we need it to have the same assignee as the one from the Epic issue that triggered this issue creation

[andreas · Accepted solution]

You can do this with Automation for JIRA.  It requires a bit of advanced config in the "create issue" action but it's pretty straightforward.

Here's an example rule configuration:

epic-story-creation.png

It's made up out of 4 components:

• The issue transitioned trigger so we start rule execution when an epic is transitioned
• One condition to check the issue is in fact an "Epic"
• Another condition to check which status we were transitioned to - "In Progress" in this case
• Finally we create a story with some advanced config.

The advanced config is:

{
    "fields": {
        "assignee": {
             "name": "{{issue.fields.assignee.key}}"
        },
        "Epic Link":"{{issue.key}}"
    }
}

This does 2 things:

• It sets the assignee of the newly created issue to the same assignee of the epic that was transitioned ({{issue.fields.assignee.key}} will be the epic's assignee
• It sets the epic custom field to the {{issue.key}} of the epic.  This means the new story will be linked to the Epic already once it's been created.  You may not need this.

[Sekhar Chandra]

@andreas  Hi-

How to do this in Jira cloud?

This add-on is not supported for Jira Cloud, so which one can support for this task?

Thanks.

Chandra