How to setup recurring tasks in Jira and be able to see those recurring tasks on my calendar view

Question

I was looking for ways to setup recurring tasks in my Jira project. We are using Jira cloud. Example, I have a Jira project with 10 tasks for this month and I want to create the same 10 tasks every 6 months. The recurring tasks must have due date set to be in the future too.

For the current 10 tasks will have all 7/14/2025 due date, when 10 recurring tasks are created, I want to see the due dates for those will be 1/14/2026 and so on for the rest of other recurring tasks.

It is like in a calendar when you are setting recurring weekly meetings on specific day of the week, you can see all of those meetings in your calendar till the period you specific or never end type. How can this be achieved in jira automation?

Larchmont Labs · Answer

Hi Alma, adding this for anyone who finds this thread later with the same goal (separate future-dated occurrences you can actually see on a calendar), since it comes up a lot.

The Automation approaches above work well for reopening a task on a schedule. The harder part natively is what you described: generating distinct occurrences in advance, each as its own issue with its own rolling due date (7/14, then 1/14, and so on), so they all appear on the calendar view. That usually means chained rules and manual date math, and it still won't render as discrete dated items.

Full disclosure: I'm with Larchmont Labs, and we built Recurring Tasks for Jira for exactly this. You define a template (assignee, priority, components, labels) and a schedule (daily / weekly / monthly), and each created issue gets a relative due date like {{date+30}}, so every occurrence lands on the right future date automatically and shows up on your calendar. Set it once and it keeps generating them.

It's Cloud, runs entirely on Atlassian (no data leaves your instance), and there's a 30-day free trial if you want to test it against your 6-month cadence: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/2496649288/recurring-tasks-for-jira

Happy to help map your exact schedule to a template.

Maria Rusnakova · Answer

Hi @Alma

you can create two automation rules, one of them will run in December, the second one in June, they will reopen your tasks and set their new Due date. If you use the Cron expression, it can be one rule, that will run in December and June and the Due date will be added as a smart value.

Alma_ljldps · Answer

Thanks Trudy for quickly sharing your thoughts...I checked the solution provided in the link and yes, it will not meet what I'm looking for. Following is my answer on your questions:

Do you want to just add the next occurrence of the task when the current occurrence completes? Or are you trying to populate multiple occurrences for a single task in advance? - [Answer] - I am trying to populate multiple occurrences for a single task in advance

If you are trying to set up multiple occurrences, how far out do you want to go? [Answer] - I looking to see if there is option where I can set it to 2-3 year far out if not set to never ending option being available. What do you want to base that on; i.e. a number of occurrences, a last date for the final occurrence, ...? [Answer] - either way would do

Do all the tasks have the same due date and same recurrence time period? [Answer] - Yes