Due Date Automation for Epic's child issues

Elif Alverson_voegli

Hello, 

I am trying to create an automation which will change the child/task issue's due dates based on Epic's due date. For example , if the Epic's due date is 20.07.2023 , the task's due date will be 18.07.2023. What would be the due date syntax including the Business Days? Thank you.

 

Rudy Holtkamp

Hi @Elif Alverson ,

First of all, the logic of the rule is not correct. (or mine isn't ;-) )

Your trigger is create issue and then the condition is epic. After that you are going to look for belonging to the epic. But since you just created it, there aren't any.

So either trigger on change value of the due date in an epic, or trigger when you create an issue belonging to an epic.

 

I'm not sure what the requirement is for the due date is for the child issue (two days earlier?).

But the syntax should be something like this:

{{triggerissue.duedate.minusBusinessDays(2).toBusinessDay}}

 

The logic is:

• From the epic issue
• You take the due date
• Substract two days
• And that date should be a business day, if not it will return the next business date.

Note that you can also replace .toBusinessDay with .toBusinessDayBackwards then you get the previoius business date.