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Recurring Tasks in Jira

Geoff Tanner

Our business needs to record the progress of recurring administrative or support tasks. Is there a way to set up a Task in Jira so that it either has a recurring due date, say once a month, or spawns cases for a given period of time with default due dates?

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Renjith Pillai

How about this?

https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/pl.com.tt.jira.plugin.theschedulerpro

And if you don't want to pay for the plugin, from Jobin's post http://www.j-tricks.com/1/post/2011/05/scheduled-tasks-in-jira.html I guess you can use the same method to create issues as well.

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Beth Schaeferma

Hi Geoff,

It looks like there might be a couple of plug-ins that might satisfy your need:

https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.consultingtoolsmiths.jira.plugins.createandlink

https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.jira.cot

If you aren't interested in fiddling with the plug-ins, you might consider creating a version called Templates that has dummy issues like the ones you have to frequently create, and then whenever you need it, clone one of them into your current iteration.

Geoff Tanner

Thanks, Beth, I will check those out. There is also a fairly obscure plugin called "The Scheduler" whcih creates a 'job' which in turn creates tasks with due dates at set recurring times.

Renjith Pillai

How about this?

https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/pl.com.tt.jira.plugin.theschedulerpro

And if you don't want to pay for the plugin, from Jobin's post http://www.j-tricks.com/1/post/2011/05/scheduled-tasks-in-jira.html I guess you can use the same method to create issues as well.

Beth Schaeferma

If you try any of them out and get a chance to come back here, I would be interested in which options you trialed and the reason for whatever direction you choose. I could foresee having to respond to this kind of request in the future from one of my teams and whatever you might share about your experience might inform my own future exploration and recommendation.

Geoff Tanner

Will do thanks Beth. I am leaning towards the scheduler, as even though it is a bit funky, it presents a good way to see the schedule per project, but I will do some mor ework on it and update the question in a while.

It is an interesting one for me, because the business sees the ability to handle recurring tasks as a very important requirement as a client management tool.

Beth Schaeferma

Thanks, Geoff!

davidjava

Hello Geoff, could you please provide any updates on your investigation? Which option worked the best?

Thank you,

David Ruana

MatthewC

Hi geoff,

This popped up on front page because of the spam answer but I was interested because I've written a plugin that does just this. It's internal to the company so I'm not releasing it but I can talk you through it if you want ;-)

contact me direct - matt@andamooka.com

Geoff Tanner

Thanks everyone for the answers provided to my question. All good stuff. I am most likely going to use the scheduler mainly for simplicity. I do not really have the resources to develop custom plugins at the moment. I am probably going to put that in place early 2013.

Christina Tatto1

Hi Matthew -- can you walk me through this? Or is this released yet? The Scheduler one is not available for the cloud which is what we use.

CodeDoers

Hi all,

Now there is another new add-on that can create recurring issues and more. You can select different actions to execute repeatedly for given issue e.g. clone issue, create sub-task in issue, reopen issue

Let's try Repeating Issues for JIRA https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.codedoers.jira.repeating-issues

Cheers

Gebsun

There is also Cloud alternative for creating recurring issues: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.gebsun.atlassian.rtasks

Cheers, Gebsun

Timo Pitkäranta

Hi Gebsun,

That looks like a nice add-on. However, after we set the recurring task, nothing happens, the status remains as "not run". Is there any settings need to be adjusted in JIRA itself?

Gebsun

Hi Timo, our Recurring Tasks plugin runs tasks every full hour. If you specify cron expression as "* * * * *" in your task, it still will be performed every full hour. When 'Last Run Status' shows an error like 'Field 'reporter' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown.', it means that 'reporter' field has to be added to suitable Jira Screen e.g. to 'Default Screen'. Cheers, Gebsun

Gebsun

Feel free to contact us directly if you have more questions: support(at)gebsun(dot)com

Timo Pitkäranta

Ok, right. Thanks! It had run now, and there was an error about that "reporter"-field. After adding that to project's "Create Issue"-screen the error was gone

Kortni_k8h2nk

Hey!

I`m new here and trying to find solution for repetitive tasks

Karyna Tyrnavska _SaaSJet

Hi, Jira users!

If you`re still searching for an app that deals with repetitive tasks, try out Recurring Checklists and Report add-on. My team has developed this plug-in to create, automate and control recurring issues using checklists.

Here is an example of the add-on for the reporter

and the report view

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