Scenario

Estimated Time: 9 min

Each time a new issue is created that is of a certain issue type, you want to create a set of sub-tasks using the same summary as the parent issue.   

Background

We can configure a Create Sub-task post function that processes when users create a new issue. For each instance of this transition, we inspect the issue type and if it is a "Story", we automatically create a set of sub-tasks. We inspect the issue type using one of Create on Transition's powerful Substitution Variables. In order to better identify subtasks, we prepend the parent issue summary with the name of the sub-task.

Steps

The following steps demonstrate how to configure Create on Transition, using regex inspection of the issue type and the Create multiple issues feature: