Automation for Jira - How set a Custom Date Picker field to the date/time the action was performed

Doug Levitt_tunij3

I have a Custom Field (Start Date) which is of type Date Picker.

When an automation is fired and the ticket moves into In Progress, I want to set Start Date to the date, based upon the day (not date/time) the ticket was transitioned.

I initially used {{now}}, but that sets everything to UTC -- which isn't always correct.  Instead, I want it to the day, relative to the person who initiated the status change.

I realize there's an {{initiator}} and I tried convertToTimeZone(initiator.timeZone).  But that didn't work.  Any ideas?

Jack Brickey

Hi Doug, have you looked at the documentation on date functions for automation? date-and-time-functions . While quite powerful I don’t see how you could find the date/time based on initiator location unless you had a custom field that the initiator filled in at the time of transition, e.g. UTC-Offset would be useful.