Automation triggers depending on day and time for a ticket transitioning to a specific status

Question

I'm trying to set up automation so that when a ticket is transitioned to a specific status the fix version is updated depending on the time of day and the day in the week.

I want the fix version to be populated with the next unrelease version if the tickets status is changed after 12pm on a Monday.

Can someone please help me work this out.

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Based on the above you would need to manually be reordering your list so that the release you want selected is at the bottom of the list.

If the release are predefined, and if within the rule you can parse the available data about when the transition occurs to pull information that would be found in the Release/Version name, then I think you could set the Fix Version using Smart Values similar to what is described in this post by @Bill Sheboy

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Jira-Automation-Assigning-a-fix-Version-based-on-Component/qaq-p/1743389

Mark_Gallier · Answer

I have multiple unreleased versions defined, one for each week up to 3 months in advance. If I map it to the next unreleased version it would map to the release for the current week, which is not what I'm trying to do. I want to be able to map it to the release for the following week. Is that possible at all do you know please?

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Do you have only one unreleased Version at a time, or do you have multiple unreleased Versions defined?

If you have only one unreleased Version at a time then you can set the Fix Version to "next unreleased version".

If you have multiple unreleased Versions, using "next unreleased version" will pick the one at the bottom of the list, regardless of the planned release dates, as per

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-21555

You would need to reorder the list so that your "next" release is at the bottom of the unreleased list.