Jira Automation Rule - Create Epic and Children - Link Epic to Parent

[Kim Vencill]

I have created an automation rule to create an epic and child issues. That works.

I would like the rule to assign the epic being created as part of the automation to a parent. 

I saw a similar post and tried the recommendation and it works somewhat.

This is a manually triggered rule. If I execute from an epic backlog, it does update the parent for an epic but it is the epic being viewed in the backlog--not the epic being created as part of the automation. I would like it to update the epic parent of the epic being created as part of the automation.

I was hoping someone could advise where the rule should be amended.

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Kim Vencill 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

One way to solve this is to replace what you have here:

...with a branch to Most Recently Created Issue:

I notice though that you have another branch already - a Smart Value branch.

Branches can execute in parallel, so your branch to update the most recently created issue could be running at the same time as the other branch. Without knowing what you are doing in that other branch, it is possible that there may be unexpected results by adding the branch I suggested. What does that other branch do? What is the rest of the Automation Rule.

[Kim Vencill]

The other branch was to create the child stories under the newly created epic and that works. I made the change you suggested and it gives me the outcome I needed. Adding a screenshot in case anyone else would find this helpful if they land here with the same question. 

Thank you!