Looking for help in date automation rules

Question

Hi everyone!

I am new with Jira and would like some help with an issue.

I am looking to insert an automation with a manual trigger on an Epic project that would affect the due date of all children. I want the children issues to have a due date corresponding to the start date of the Epic project (inserted manually) plus a specific number of business days. The specific number of days is a number field for task inserted manually.

In brief, when triggering the Epic project, I want all children to have a due date corresponding to the start date of the Epic project + a specific number of business days (inserted in each task manually in a number field).

Hope someone can help me with that.

Thanks

John Funk · Answer

So the custom field is a number field I assume - to capture the number for the date field. Correct? Let's just say the name of the field is New Number.

So the due date field would look like this:

{{triggerIssue.Start date.plusBusinessDays(issue.New Number.asNumber())}}

John Funk · Answer

Can you share actual screenshots of your rule?

Samuel Lavigne · Answer

Hi John, thanks for the answer!

I have build the general automation - the manual trigger on Epic projects, the branching for children, and the due date edit issue field.

I am now trying to enter some additional fields to connect the due date that I want.

Here is what I have seen on websites and tried so far:

{{issue.parent.fields.customfield}} // Get the start date from the parent epic {{issue.fields.customfield}} // Get the calendar day from the current task {{#issue.parent.fields.customfield}}{{this}}{{/}} +{{#issue.fields.customfield}}{{this}}{{/}}d // Add the calendar day to the start date

To be honest, I understand the issue.parent.fields mechanic, but I'm not sure about the customfield...

Hope this helps you - don't hesitate to say otherwise!

Thanks!