Automation - on creating an epic, how do you set the labels field to the value of Epic Name?

[Tzirel Shaffren]

When creating an Epic, I would like to set the value of the Labels field to the value of the Epic Name. But it seems that the "Field to copy value from" drop down does not offer the Epic Name field. Is there any way around this?

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Tzirel Shaffren 

When you select the Copy From option for a Labels field, you can only select other similar Labels type fields to copy data from.

To add a text value as a new label you will need to use the ADDREMOVE option and then reference the text field using its smart value, similar to this:

Also note that Label values can't have spaces in them, so if your Epic Name has blank spaces in it then the rule will fail.

[Tzirel Shaffren]

Worked perfectly - thanks!