How to get start and end times for an epic?

[paul]

Hello, I would like start and end times for epic?  I have statuses for an epic like "to do", "ready", "in progress", "done" and "closed".  How do I get times for when an epic flows through theses states?  Particularly,  when someone changes the status from "ready" to "in in progress" and when "in progress" to "done".  How can I get these time stamps for these states when they change.  I like to know how long an epic is "in progress".

I am using Azure Jira v10.3.12.

Thanks,

Paul

[John Funk]

Hi Paul,

You can see the information in the History for the wok item in the Activity section of the work item. If you need it like in a report, could use on of the many apps in the Atlassian Marketplace - some are free and some require payment. But that is the easiest way. 

Another way would be to create custom fields and use automation rules to populate the custom fields. 

[Anwesha Pan]

Hi @paul 👋🏻

In addition to @John Funk and @Nishant Paraskar suggestions, I have one update for you.

If you need those timestamps permanently logged on the epic for future use, you can create custom fields by adding automation rule:

1. Create 2 new Date/Time Picker custom fields: In Progress Time and Done Time.
2. Go to Project Settings > Automation and create a new rule:
   • Trigger: Issue transitioned
   • From Status: Ready
   • To Status: In Progress
   • Action: New action > Edit issue > Set In Progress Time field to {{now}}. 
3. Create a second rule for the finish time:
   • Trigger: Issue transitioned
   • From Status: In Progress
   • To Status: Done
   • Action: New action > Edit issue > Set Done Time field to {{now}}.

Once populated, you can easily use these dates to calculate the exact duration an epic spent in progress.

I hope this helps. 🙂

Thanks,
Anwesha

[Nishant Paraskar]

Hi Paul,

One option is to use the Jira REST API & review the Epic's changelog/history uisng API and another simple way on Jira issue View Screen from History 

From there, you can identify when the Epic first moved into an "In Progress" status and when it was finally transitioned to a "Done" status.

If you need to track these dates going forward, I suggest you to create custom fields such as "Epic Start Date" and "Epic End Date" and populating them using Jira Automation whenever the Epic changes status. or by workflow postfunction automation to capture the time when status change.


In DC Jira version you can also refer to Transition tab on Jira View Screen  where you can find the transition details  but this isn't a available for Jira Cloud,