How to add the story points from a child to parent

[rneill19]

Hello!

I am trying to create an automation rule that will add to the value of the Story Point field on the parent ticket whenever Story Points are updated on specific related issues.

I'll include a screenshot of the rule I've built. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I'm seeing successes in the audit log but that ticket isn't actually updating with anything.

I was using this article as my starting point: 

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/automation-template-library/sum-up-story-points. Obviously I'm not using the subtask issue type so I'm not sure if that's why the smart value isn't working but thought I'd see if anyone here has any ideas. Thanks in advance for your help!

[Chi Am _Addon-Solutions_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @rneill19

You can use the proposed templates and you must also take into consideration several use cases such as for example the addition and deletion of a ticket to retrigger your calculation

[rneill19]

Hi Chi,

This solution worked for me! Thanks for calling out the reminder of when a ticket gets deleted the story points won't be updated.

[Chi Am _Addon-Solutions_]

Hi @rneill19 

Glad this solved your problem.

[Prachi Bolar]

Hi @rneill19 ,

Welcome to Community :) 

Please check if this helps in your case : https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/automation-to-sum-up-story-points-of-stories-in-different-statuses-and-add-the-value-to-the-parent-1108673757.html

Thank You,

Prachi

[rneill19]

Hi Prachi,

Thanks for the response, I appreciate it! I ended up going with Chi's solution above. 

[Prachi Bolar]

Thank you @rneill19 :)