How to make epics interdependent on the roadmap

Question

Hi there, I'm new to Jira and have some troubles with the roadmaps

shortly: I need the epics to be prolonged automatically by one day, if they don't have the 'done' status. And linked epics to be moved to one day forward.

Which rules can I use to make this? Didn't find anything that fits the idea in the rules

in details: we are the animation studio and we need to optimize processes of our production. Generally we have 5-6 people in a team and 4-6 epizodes in production with the same chronology of production. Everyone is included in production of several epizodes simultaneously and often don't follow the deadlines strictly. That's why we need the automatically shifting schedule.

Kevin Bui · Answer

Hi @v_fedorova98 - You can accomplish this with the following rule:

* Trigger: Scheduled, with a JQL such as project = "My Project" and issueType = "Epic" and dueDate = now().
* Branch: For Current issue.
* Action: Edit issue, select the Due Date field, and enter {{now.plusDays(1)}}.

Your rule should look like this:

Note that with this setup, this could take up a significant portion of your execution limit for the month. Even if you configure the trigger so that it runs once a day, that's still around 30 executions per month just on this one rule.

Hope that helps!

Angélica Luz · Answer

Hello @v_fedorova98,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

Testing on my local site, I'm afraid to say that it's not possible to do that using Automation.

I used the JQL duedate = now() and duedate = startOfDay() to get the Epics that has "today" as due date but the automation doesn't run as expected.

Here is the example that I used:

I found another thread that mentions Scriptrunner, which has more functionalities since you can create a script to change the due date.

*  How do I automatically set the Due Date of an issue via a workflow post funtion

Regards,
Angélica