Automatically Link issues to other issues with Automation for Jira

Summary

It might be helpful for you to link all issues related to each other by only linking two of them.

Here you'll learn how to configure an Automation for Jira rule for a specific scenario.

Scenario Description

• All issues we want to be linked by this automation rule use the "Relates To" link type on Jira.

• Only an issue link is performed manually to trigger the rule and the other automatic links.

• This manual link action must originate from the issue with more issues linked to it with the "Relates To" link type.

Solution

Rule details:

• Trigger:

  • Issue Linked;

• Branch:

  • For Linked Issues;

• Action:

  • Edit issue fields:

    • Linked issues

    • Relates to

    • {{destinationIssue}}

The logic here is that we trigger the rule whenever we have a link between issues being made, and that's using the "Relates To" link type.

Then, on the Branch, we look for the issues linked to the "Source Issue"—this concept depends on the link type, but for the Relates To link type, it is the issue where the manual link was performed.

And finally, we add a new link to all the linked issues by using the {{destinationIssue}} smart value inside the "Edit Issue" action to reference the newly created issue.

Rule screenshot for reference: