This section explains key concepts of the app such as workflow post functions, issue fields, as well as when to use Original vs. Parent values.
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As a Jira administrator, one of the aspects of a workflow that you can control are is post functions. The primary purpose of a post function is to carry out additional processing that may be required after a workflow transition has been executed. Examples include:
creating a change history record for the issue
adding a comment to an issue
updating an issue's field
creating an event to trigger one or more email notifications
Jira has both essential and optional post functions and it is important that you understand their differences as they pertain to the introduction of new post functions with Create on Transition.
Issue fields
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Create Issue and Create Sub-task post functions support quite a number of fields (Issue fields) that can be configured to help you control bothcontrol both:
when
thethe issue should be created and
what
informationinformation is associated with the issue once created
Many of our customers have found it helpful to review each issue field and capability ahead of creating their first post function.
Original vs. parent Values
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Original Issue - The original issue that started the workflow transition. This could be an issue or sub-task.
Parent Issue - The parent issue of the originalthe original issue. If the original issue is not a the original issue is not a sub-task, then parent is the same as original as original.
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