Auto fill & create future dates for tasks?

Question

Hi all,

My team and I use Jira for managing event planning for our university department. Many of our events happen 1-2 times per year, at the same time every year. The tasks within each event do not change from year to year. I was wondering if there is a way using Jira automation to copy the tasks that have been created for this year's events and auto populate future epics and tasks with corresponding future dates based off of the current dates for this year. This would save a lot of time without having to manually re-enter the same tasks/dates every 6 months.

Any help at all is very much appreciated :)

Thank you!

Charlotte Santos -Appfire- · Answer

Hi @Emily Cobb

I’m Charlotte, a support engineer at Appfire and I’m here to help you.

If you're considering a third-party app, with Power Scripts you can Schedule a job to be run, for example, a year from now and every year this job will run and clone the tasks you need.

You will build a SIL script, in this case, you will use, for example:

cloneIssue("ABC-123")

And, then use the feature Scheduled Jobs to choose the interval you want the script to run, below you can see one I created as an example:

This is only one of the many functions Power Scripts offer, so, please feel free to contact our support if you have any questions about these suggestion or about the app in general.

We’ll be happy to help you! 😉

Luka Hummel - codefortynine · Answer

Hi @Emily Cobb and welcome to the community!

If you are willing to use a third-party app, our Deep Clone for Jira could help you achieve your goal.

You can have Deep Clone triggered by a Jira Automation via a looping transitions and have it clone your template tasks and/or epics.

With our Field Editor feature, you can also change the date fields while cloning. With the help of Jira expressions, you can configure the dates to be any date you want.