ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud: Scheduled Job Every Other Week

[Jeffrey Bistrong]

I am trying to figure out how to accomplish this in script runner for jira cloud, but we have a scheduled job that we need to run every other wednesday. 

I don't see a way to accomplish this natively in script runner.

[Germán Morales _ Hiera]

Hi @Jeffrey Bistrong , correct, there is no biweekly option. The Cloud scheduler only offers weekly days or day-of-month, no cron, so a true 14-day cadence can't be set in the dialog. You add it in the script instead:

• Leave the schedule as it is, every Wednesday.
• At the top of the Code to Run, work out the current week and run your real logic only on alternate weeks, returning early otherwise. Anchor it to a Wednesday you know should fire so it lands on the weeks you want.

One thing not to do: don't base the alternation on the plain week-of-year number, because 53-week years make it stutter for two weeks across New Year. Counting whole days since a fixed anchor date and running when that count divides evenly by 14 is the version that never drifts.