Automation for Copying Fields

[Aileen]

Hello Atlassian Community,

I need to find a way to create automation(s) to copy over 2 fields from Issue A to Issue B, C, and D

Scenario

Issue A is blocked by Issue B, C, and D

Issue B blocks Issue A

Issue C blocks Issue A

Issue D blocks Issue A

Issues B, C, and D are cloned by Issue A in a separate automation.

Issues B, C, and D are NOT linked together (I would be okay if they were, but not necessary)

All four issues (A, B, C, and D) are on separate jira-projects

These are all on the same issue type and request type, let's call it "onboarding"

Does anyone have any automation suggestions?

[Aileen · Accepted solution]

Hi all!

Thank you for your quick responses!

Automation wasn't giving me an easy way to reach out to the B, C, D issue fields since they we created by another automation where they were cloned from A.

But, I figured out a way to make it work yesterday by using JQL for Linked Issues.

I basically had to use automation to search for issues with a matching field, link them together, and edit the 2 fields on them

using two branches because Issue A and Issue B didn't need to be linked, but needed fields updated

but Issue A and Issue C, D were okay to be linked and needed fields updated

@_@ makes my head spin, but after 2 days of trial and error, hopefully this is the one that sticks.

[Duc Thang TRAN]

Hello @Aileen 

If your instance allows automations across multiple projects, you can use an automation like this. 

Scheduled and for Due date and Priority field 

Otherwise, I can propose another solution, but it will require three automations.

[Jerrold - Empyra]

Hi @Aileen 

To copy 2 fields from issue A to B,C and D 

You can use

Trigger > as per the requirement 

branch > linked issues >Type is blocked by 

Action > Edit issue Fields > select the field > copy from trigger issue 

For example I have selected Assignee and description field 

If you provide more information on when you want to copy this field I can help you with the trigger .

Thank you.