I have an automation rule that creates a few issues and would like to perform some actions on these created issues. Yet when I add actions to my rule after create they don't update the created issue and log something along the lines of "No issues to assign" or "No issues in input".
Here's an example rule that doesn't work:
The problem here is that the main branch of an automation rule always refers to the issues produced by the trigger. So when the assign issue executes, it tries to assign the issue produced by the 'Scheduled' trigger. That's just a scheduler though that doesn't add any issues to the rule and therefore the assign fails.
Step-by-step guide
To solve this problem you have to branch the rule using the 'Branch rule / Related issues' action for 'Created issues'
- After your create issue action insert a 'Branch rule / Related issues' action with 'Created issues' selected
- On this branch add the 'Assign issue' action (or any other actions you want to perform on the created issues
Here's what this would look like:
For the example above, you could also set the assignee directly in the 'Create issue' action simply by adding the field. Please ensure though that the assignee field is on the appropriate 'Create' screen in JIRA first.
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