Automation rule not appearing in Tasks

Question

So I created a simple automation rule for re-occurring events. I just want the task to be re-created 1 month ahead after it transitions to "Done" but after creating the rule and publishing it, it cannot be attached to the task as you can see it says "No automations available". If I go inside Manage rules, I'll find them there but how can I link a rule to a task ?

Bilal Khan_872ge5 · Answer

Guess this is the correct answer here:

Buy Recurring Tasks for Jira Cloud from marketplace or if your whole project is ok with the rule that you created then its fine. If you have multiple projects and need to isolate your rules, you will be making complex triggers or conditions.

If you want to open the door, you just need to reach out with your hand, twist the door knob and open it. But in case of Jira, you need to first sanitize your hands, wear gloves and THEN reach out to the door-knob to open it. (sorry for bad analogy pun intended, read the whole topic for context.)

Have a great day !

Bilal Khan_872ge5 · Answer

I mean I wouldn't even need to make an automation rule if the simple option to have re-occurring events existed. Our case is very simple, we have stuff to do monthly and yearly, once this stuff is addressed and 'closed' I wanted Jira to recreate the issue 1 month or 1 year ahead rather than me manually cloning the issue and changing the dates.

I see where you are going with this, but again this is silly if I have to "look" for specific events to make my automation trigger for specific task. Solving the issue by making the problem more complex is not the idea for a good tasks management platform.

The triggers are the problem not the condition, they are very limited and of course since it is designed this way, no option to focus or isolate to a specific task.

Anyways thanks for the help and hope other people who face the same issue will not have to keep searching the internet for answers. Hope the owners of this platform decide to actually implement re-occurring tasks feature or link automation rules to issues directly avoiding the need to isolate by looking for events to trigger. Turns out you can buy such modules from the marketplace.........now it all makes sense ;)

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Thanks for that information!

How do you know when you want the rule to run?  For example, is there a specific value in a specific field that you look for?

If so, you could add a condition after the trigger to check that field/value and then the rule would meet your use case.