Update date to output as YY/MM

[Jon Parker]

I have an automation to add the jira.date to a field when a status is changed. I'd like to also have a secondary custom field where this date is reflected as "YY/MM". 

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Jon Parker 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

That secondary custom field will have to be a text field because it is not possible to specify different date formats for different fields.

You can use the date/time format commands to get the date in the format you want and put that into the custom field.

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

A link to the Java documentation for formatting options is found in the last row in the first table in the above page. I believe you would use:

{{issue.YourDateField.format("YY/MM")}}

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Jon Parker -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Is that other custom field a text field?

If so, you may use the format() function with the layout needed:

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

Kind regards,
Bill