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How to use the plusBusinessDays function in Jira automation against the created variable?

Jayson2 Contreras

Hi everyone,

Good day!

I am creating an automation rule that will set the value of custom field "Planned Execution Date" to the date when an issue was transitioned from "In Draft" to "In Progress" plus one business day. And this needs to be run retrospectively. I was able to do until setting the value of "Planned Execution Date" to the date when an issue was transitioned from "In Draft" to "In Progress", but couldn't use the plusBusinessDays function to the created variable. Does anyone know how to make this work?

Here's the screenshot of the rule I'm creating: Screenshot 2025-02-18 111452.png

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Jayson

Accepted answers

Vishal Biyani_2pr07j

@Jayson2 Contreras

you need to specify the format with toDate. So, something like below

You may have to play with date format based on what you have.

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Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Jayson2 Contreras

Created variables are always stored as strings regardless of the original value types used to set the variable. Each time you want to use the variable with a date/time related function you must first convert the string to a date.