Automation Smart Value to set First Thursday of Month

Question

I am looking for the correct Smart Value with Automated Tickets to create a date which is the first Thursday of the following month.

E.g  Jira Automation creates the ticket on the last day of the current month & the start or due date of the ticket should read a date corresponding to the first Thursday of the following month

Can someone please help?

Cheers

Alan

Antuan Sammak · Accepted Answer

Hi @Alan Dunbar

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

you can refer to the below, more info can be found here https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-date-and-time/

also, your automation rule needs to be Scheduled based and their you can control the config of when it will run on Monthly basis

Next day of week {{[date].withNextDayOfWeek(["day"])}}

Sets the date to the next matching day. If you're already on that day, then it will return the next week. You can use the following values: MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI, SAT, SUN.

Example of {{[date].withNextDayOfWeek(["day"])}}

1{{now.withNextDayOfWeek("TUE")}} will return the next Tuesday.

Salzi · Accepted Answer

Hey @Alan Dunbar

try:
{{now.plusMonths(1).firstOfTheMonth(4)}}

It is actually quite simple. You have a date (now), you add a month to it (.plusMonth(1)) and then you jump to the first Thursday (.firstOfTheMonth(4))

look here: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-date-and-time/

Best Salzi