Call Function with argument in Jira Automation

Jakob Wendt

I am stuck at a problem that probably shouldn't be one.

 

I want to calculate a future date with Jira automation. The date is x-hours from a given timestamp, where x is a number of hours provided by the Issue.

 

To calculate the future date, I tried:

{{now.plusHours({{hours}})}}

and

{{now.plusHours(hours)}}

 

because I wasn't 100% certain about the correct syntax.

The first just returns nothing if I try to log the value, the latter just throws the error

Failed to get value for now.plusHours({{hours: {{now.plusHours({{hours}})}}

 

To isolate the Issue, I already tried to set hours to a fixed value (e.g. 300) with no success.

Also, I tried the aforementioned syntax directly with a fixed value

{{now.plusHours(300)}}  

which works just fine.

 

So I guess the core-question is: How to reference Smart-Values within Functions?

 

What am I missing? 

Sherry Goyal

@Jakob Wendt  

You can use something like

{{now.plusHours(issue.hours | 1)}}

where 1 is default value if issue.hours does not exists. Hopefully this answers your query.

 

Cheers
Sherry