Automation to Update Epic Due Date

[Jeff Hooper]

I've created an automation to update a Task due date, whenever a Subtask due date changes. (We set the Task due date to the max of its Subtask due dates.) That works great.

I've created a similar automation to update an Epic due date, whenever a Task due date changes. (We want to set the Epic due date to the max of its Task due dates.) I'm missing something here, because this one is not working:

 

I'm thinking that parent={{issue.key}} is NOT the correct way for me to look up the Tasks that are in the Epic that I want to update. What's the correct way for me to do this? Thank you.

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Jeff Hooper 

What does the rule Audit Log show you for the execution of the rule?

In what way is the rule not working?

Is this for issues in a Team Managed project or a Company Managed project?

I think the problem might be in your Branch step. I think it needs to be For: Epic (parent)

[Jeff Hooper]

@Trudy Claspill The Epic was never being updated for my Team-Managed project, BUT you were exactly correct that my Branch step needed to be changed from For: Parent to For: Epic (parent). I had cloned the step that works correctly when the Parent is a Task. Anyway, I made the change, and now it works perfectly! Thank you.