Change the Issue Colour through automation

Summary

You want to set or update the issue color using Jira Automation

Atlassian is standardizing how we associate parent and child issues across Jira for company-managed and team-managed projects.

This results in the deprecation of the Epic Link and Parent Link custom fields in REST APIs and webhooks, as well as in some other related changes.

Environment

• Jira Cloud

• Automation for Jira

Solution

Instead of using the old "Epic Color", you should use the "Issue color" custom field.

The issue color field acts the same way as the Epic Color, but it is not directly connected to an Epic, and can be used in any issue type of your hierarchy.

To retrieve the correct custom field id, you can search for the issue color in the all issue filters:

With the correct custom_field, you can build a simple automation to edit the issue color:

You can now use the color names, like blue, green, yellow, etc