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This is the documentation of JSU for Jira Server/Data Center. If you are using JSU on Jira Cloud, see our JSU Cloud documentation. |
Maintain consistency across projects and get a clear view of your team's tasks
Do you want to make your parent issue close when all the issues in it are closed? JSU Automation suite for Jira workflows can help you automate it.
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Goal | Eliminate repetitive tasks and save time by automatically closing parent tasks | ||||||
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Scenario | When your team has closed all of an issue’s subtasks, the parent issue remains open and someone has to manually move it to
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Components | Linked Transition post function |
How to configure this workflow
Go to Create a draft of your project settings and click to edit your workflow. Choose
Select the transition you want to add your post function into. In this case, we will choose select the ‘Done’ transition number 31transition to
.Status colour Green title done Select the Post Functions tab then click Add post function.
Select the ‘Linked transition’ (JSU) post function then click Add. The post function configuration page displays.
Now configure Configure your post function. You want your epic :
We want to move an issue to Done when all
its subtasks are done, so
for the Trigger transition on all issues related as: option, we select, Parent/Subtask > Parent (issue in transition must be subtask).
Choose the transition that you want
to apply to the issue when all the subtasks are done. Here, we want the
parent issue to
move to Done
.
You don’t need to add a resolution
. If you do include a resolution, make sure that the resolution field is visible on the transition screen.
Since we only want to close the
parent issue when the last task is closed, we need to configure the status of
all sibling issues. In this case, we choose the Done status
so that the linked transition will be executed only
once the last subtask is done.
Select Add at the bottom of the page.
Publish your workflow.
Now go to your Epic issue and move all the tasks to “Done”. Your epic status is now “Done” too! You can subtasks to
. Watch as the parent issue moves toStatus colour Green title done
. You may need to refresh your browser to see the change. You can similarly configure the same automation process for any parent and sub-tasks you needan epic and all its subtasks.Status colour Green title done
How-to video
Watch this video to see this use case in action:
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