An automation rule to notify when an issue is moved to another project

Platform Notice: Cloud Only - This article only applies to Atlassian products on the cloud platform.

Summary

If you have a use case where you would want to be notified if an issue is moved to another project (not intended project)

Solution

Create an automation rule with the following components:

Trigger: Issue moved from any project to any project:

Condition:

issue.project.key doesn't contain equals("Projectkey 1", "Projectkey 2") (Here we can update all the project key list)

Reference article: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-conditional-logic/

Action: Send an email to move it to the appropriate projects.

Updated on March 24, 2025

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