Close duplicate issues with automation
Platform Notice: Cloud - This article applies to Atlassian products on the cloud platform.
Summary
This solution can be used when duplicated issues must be closed once created.
Solution
- Create an automation that will start when an issue is created
Add a Lookup Issues action with the query below:
summary ~ "\"{{issue.summary}}\""
Add a condition to check if there were multiple issues with the same summary:
{{lookupIssues.size}} > 1
- Add an action to close the issue