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Automate Ranking Epics By Initiative Rank

Learn how to add an automation that ranks epics by their initiative.

Setup

  1. Download the following automation: https://github.com/bitovi/jira-plan-weaver-automations/blob/main/on-initiative-rank-change-update-child-epic-ranks.json

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  2. Go to Global Automation:

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  3. Select import rules:

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  4. Import the JSON file you downloaded

  5. Select the rule to import:

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  6. Select the rule for editing:

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  7. Find the web request step and the TOKEN that needs to be passed:

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  8. Replace the TOKEN with the token created in https://bitovi.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/agiletraining/pages/1302462817/How+to+create+a+Jira+Request+token

  9. Update and enable the automation:

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Use

To use:

  1. Create some initiatives with epics

  2. Change the rank of the initiatives

  3. Notice that the rank of the epics also changes