Historical data automation

[Petra Fashanu]

Dear all,

I am trying to build an automation that could help timestamp date of epics, which went into build status. Mind I can do the now but I am finding it hard to get the date in the past when the epic entered into the state.

Any suggestions?

[Marc - Devoteam · Accepted solution]

Hi @Petra Fashanu 

Welcome to the community.

Using historical data from an issue can only be found using the API, see api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-changelog-get 

Or you could create a custom field of type date or date/time and based on the transition in to build status, have an automation rule to set this field, by using the {{now}} smart value.

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[Petra Fashanu]

Thank you. I was trying to get away with smartvalues {{issue.statusCategoryChangedDate}}. But I guess that is not going to work and I will need a wee script for that.

[Marc - Devoteam]

Hi @Petra Fashanu 

Simpler is to create the custom field and an automation to populate this field.

The changelog smart value has a limited scope only

[Petra Fashanu]

Thank you