Working with branch rules and related issues

It is not often that issues exist in isolation. In fact, in many cases, there are always other issues that relate to any given issue. This could be in the form of sub-tasks, stories linked to a larger epic, or issues linked to other issues using relationships such as blocked, duplicated, and more.

You will therefore often come across situations when creating automation rules where you need to perform actions against not only the issue that triggered the rule, but also against issues related to the source issue.

This is where the Branch rule component and its companion condition, the Related issues condition, prove most useful, allowing you to create rules that can work across complex issue relationships.

Branch rule/related issues

When we use the Branch rule component to perform actions against a related issue or list of issues, the rule no longer executes in a linear fashion, instead expanding into multiple sub-branches representing...