Automation weekdays and weekends

[david_contreras]

Hello everyone, I work in a sales company and I need to configure an automation to assign leads to different salespeople (agents) depending on whether it is a weekday or weekend

the first step of automating is when the incident or lead is created, after that I don't know how to continue

[Dirk Ronsmans]

Hey @david_contreras ,

I assume you mean your trigger is defined then as "issue created"? 

The next step imho would be to add in an IF condition which has a JQL. You could then build a JQL that looks at what day of the week the issue was created.

Jira does not have a weekday or weekendDay function so you have to do some trickery.

I tend to use the startOfWeek() and endOfWeek() functions.

For my "weekdays" If I would add this JQL: 

created >= startOfWeek() and created <= endOfWeek(-2d)

The weekend days would then be 

created >= endOfweek(-2d) and created <= endOfWeek()

This would be my starting point.

[david_contreras]

Good morning, yesterday I tried it and it worked very well, however today (Friday) the automation assigned issues to the agents designated for the weekend :(

[Dirk Ronsmans]

Hey @david_contreras ,

I think that might be with the 2nd JQL

Can you change that to

created > endOfWeek(-1d) and created <= endOfWeek()

That would make more sense as endofWeek() = Sunday and then -1d would be Saturday.

By doing -2d we include Friday (which is fine for the first JQL i guess..

[david_contreras]

It did not work for me, I investigated and
startOf Week () starts Sunday 00:00 h
endOfweek () is Saturday just before Midnight

That is why it did not work before, I tried with this function, it assigns me the weekdays well, however the weekend function does not assign Saturday but Sunday yes, help please

For weekdays
created >= startOfWeek(1d) and created <= endOfWeek(-1d)
The weekend days
created > startofweek(-1d) and created <= startOfWeek(1d)

[Mya_Hauck]

@david_contreras 

Hi David,

Did you ever figure this out? My business days start on Sunday as well.

Thanks