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Automation - Inherit a date from trigger issue and add X days

caglad

We are building an automation rule that takes an epic and uses different types of dates from that to make it a due date on the "standard issue type" children of the epic..

Since I dont have all dates captured in the epic, I want to be able to do something like "configuration due date" plus 5 days. I know if I just want to NOT pull from the trigger date I could do something like

now.plusBusinessDays(5)

My question is how can I do date on the new issue by saying tiggerissue.configurationduedate-5days. Is this even possible.

Accepted answers

Bill Sheboy

Hi @caglad

Yes, that is possible.

You will want to use the {{triggerIssue}} smart value as a start: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-issues/#--triggerIssue--

Then you need to identify the correct smart value (or custom field id) for your field: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/find-the-smart-value-for-a-field/

And finally, use the correct function and units of measure to adjust the date value: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-date-and-time/#Date-minus-unit---

If that does not help, please post images of the complete rule, the action where you are performing the date adjustment, and of the audit log details showing the rule execution. Those will provide context for the community to make suggestions.