Jira Automation: set due date of a cloned story to the following Friday, that is at least 6 days

[Craig Duffy]

Hi, I have an automation that I want to have clone a story- the cloned story should have a due date that is for the following Friday. When I say "following Friday", I mean the Friday that is NOT in the current week. So if its Thursday, I want the automation to set the due date for the cloned story to be 1 week and 1 day in the future, not "tomorrow". 

I cant figure out how to make that happen. any advice?

Thank you in advance.

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Craig Duffy 

What have you tried to solve this?  For example, if you have a smart value expression which does not work, please post that expression and what you observe happening.  That will help the community offer better suggestions.

Until we see that, have you tried using the date / time increment functions to do this?

https://confluence.atlassian.com/automation/jira-smart-values-date-and-time-993924864.html

Kind regards,
Bill

[Craig Duffy]

thanks Bill-

I think I figured it out, using this

{{

{\{now.withNextDayOfWeek("FRI").plusDays(7)}

}}}

Let me know if that seems like its correct. It worked when I tried it on my dev environment. 

Thanks

[Bill Sheboy]

Well done, and that seems correct for what you describe!

Please remember that will not do anything special for holidays / non-working days, so watch for that as you use the next Friday increment.

[Craig Duffy]

Yeah, Im ok with that. Adding in actual holidays would make my brain melt.