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Automating Jira subtask creation can significantly streamline your workflow, especially when you need to maintain data consistency between parent issues and their child tasks. However, a common hurdle arises when dealing with cascading select lists. In this guide, we explore how to bridge this gap using Jira Cloud Automation.

In a recent tutorial session, Aaditya Kumar demonstrated how to resolve historical limitations in Jira Cloud automation regarding cascading select fields. For years, users struggled to copy cascading select fields between issues using standard automation, as the child option could not be selected without the parent value.

Managing Jira automation rules often feels like a manual, repetitive chore, especially when you are working across multiple instances. Whether you are migrating configurations between development and production environments or simply looking to version control your workflows, the ability to export and import Jira automation rules as JSON files is a game-changer.

In this post, we’ll walk through how to leverage this feature to save time, reduce human error, and improve administrative transparency.

Jira Cloud Automation - JSON is a file format

You can display json nicely in Emacs using json-pretty-print, it comes out of the box and works nicely.

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If you can't find the field you want to update in the dropdown then you can use additional fields option and provide valid JSON to update the fields.

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Do you have to work with JSON and CSV? Let us learn how to quickly convert from one format to another.

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https://json-csv.com/