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Automation and custom fields don't always help

Automations are a common approach to improving the project overview. You can aggregate certain values such as time data from an epic and the associated issues and summarize them in a custom field. However, there are two main problems with this approach: Firstly, such automations are sometimes complex to set up. Secondly, Atlassian has recently introduced limits for automations for Jira, which further restricts the possibilities.