How can I automate Due Dates from Original Estimates?

[Joe Mueller]

Our team is utilizing Jira Cloud - and we have a straight forward process of Estimating all of our work and setting it to "To Do" to grab as we go. I want to be able to automate the Due Date field so that when our devs transition the issue to "In Progress", and if the due date is empty, set the Due Date to when it's transitioned (now) to (now + Original Estimate).

The automation rule in Jira is easy for setting up the conditions, but the action for adding the Original estimate is where I'm blocked.

From this documentation: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/smart-values-date-and-time-functions/ I can only find syntax for {{now.plus[insertknownquantity]}} 

How do I get that [insertknownquantity] to not be a fixed time, but instead pull from the Original Estimate field? 

[Deleted user]

It's not possible.

Ranking is only on issues within a swimlane.

The swimlanes themselves are ordered fixed in a board configuration.

[Nick]

I am using JIRA 6.3.4 and I can drag issues between lanes in a Kanban board and also change their ordering.

I checked the configuration for the board and it says

Ranking          Using Rank

which is the default. You can change this by editing the filter query, and for example change it to "ORDER BY issuekey ASC"

[Steven F Behnke]

Nick! You are referring to dragging and dropping between COLUMNS, not LANES. Furthermore, ordering WITHIN a LANE always works if you are sorting by rank. The Question is asking about specifically the Story Swimlanes. It is not possible to drag and drop these lanes themselves! From my initial testing, it appears they are appearing in order of KEY. It is also not possible to drag and drop issues between ANY Swimlanes. Ranking can ONLY be achieved between a single swimlane!

[Steven F Behnke]

You can not drag items between swimlanes. You can only stack-rank within a swimlane.

Since swimlanes a represented by queries, assignees, epics, or stories, you wouldn't ranking them at all. Rank is the relative rank of issues within a swimlane.

[Tudor Hofnar]

Thanks @Steven Behnke. Perhaps rank was not the correct word to use here. Can I rearrange the order of the swim lanes? Can I move the one that is at the bottom to the top or vice versa?

[Steven F Behnke]

Ahh... I see. I'm still checking but it appears to just be by Key.