How to populate Foxly Priority Poker scores from epic to child issues using automation

How to populate Foxly Priority Poker scores from epic to child issues using automation

Purpose

This page describes how to copy priority scores to child issues related to specific Epic using Jira Automation.

Step-by-step guide

  1. See Create a custom field in Jira to create a Custom field that will be visible in the Stories/Tasks.

  2. Make this field available in your Stories/Tasks screens to be visible on an issue view.

  3. Go to the automation and create the automation with the trigger Field value changed.

  4. Set up Fields to monitor for changes to Priority Score:

    a screenshot of the Jira automation settings showing the options described in the steps above
  5. Next select the Branch rule and select the Type of related issues to Children.

  6. Add Edit issue fields action and add the following JSON:

    { "update": { "customfield_10093": [{ "set": {{issue.epic.customfield_10093}} }] } }

    a screenshot of the Jira automation settings showing the JSON coded described in the steps above

Change the custom field ID of a Smartvalue to match the custom field added. Once you add the custom field, the ID is created dynamically on your instance.

  1. Go to Foxly Planning Poker and prioritize the Epic. Once the Priority score is calculated, the custom field value of child issues will be populated.