How to create due date automation

[Drew Schneider]

For tickets that need to be completed every week, month, etc., I want the assigned person to be able to leave a comment on the ticket that the task has been completed and move the ticket to done.

Then I'd like to set up an automation that

1) automatically updates the ticket's due date (e.g. a week from now for a weekly task) and 2) moves the ticket back to in progress once it's been marked as done.

I figured out how to do 2 above, but I can't figure out how to do 1 above.  I would like to be able to add a then statement that automatically updates the due date to the current due date plus the story point estimate (e.g., if due date is 1/21, and story point estimate is 7, then it updates due date to 1/28).  Is there a way to do this? 

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Drew Schneider 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Yes, this is possible.

Use an Edit action and edit the Due date field, setting its value using a smart value:

{{issue.duedate.plusDays(issue.Story Points)}}

The functions for manipulating dates and times can be found here:

https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-date-and-time/

[Drew Schneider]

Thank you!  That worked - I had to change it to {{issue.duedate.plusDays(issue.Story point estimate)}}

[Trudy Claspill]

Where I used "Story Points" you would need to use the actual name of the field. I did not catch that you said "story points estimate".

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