How add current month into Summary and Description of an issue?

[Shah Baloch]

I'm using "Automation for Jira" to create recurring monthly tasks. It is working fine it creates issues each month on a certain day. However, I would like to add the month into the Summary and description. For example, if it's August the summary should be "It's time to following with Customer XYZ - August or August 2021", I'll add something similar in the description too with the month. How I can add a date variable that it's value gets change each month?

Thanks

[Brian Keefe · Accepted solution]

These work:

{{now.format("MMMM")}} = October

{{now.format("MMM")}} = Oct

[Shah Baloch]

Thank you @Brian KeefeIt works. How can I include the year, like  "October 2021"? Thank you for your help.

[Shah Baloch]

Never mind, I added YYYY and it worked. Thank you for your help. Here is the updated one.

 {{now.format("MMMM, YYYY")}}

[Christian Meza]

thanks!

[Brian Keefe]

For reference, this page is linked in the Automation documentation that has all the different symbols and examples.

[prakash]

Hi @Brian Keefe 

per suppose we have "Aug2022" version is there, we release this version end of this month and we want to automatically create new version like this " Sep2022 ", is it possible?

[Alex Koxaras · Accepted solution]

Hi @Shah Baloch 

You could use a smart value to insert a date (although I'm not sure you could add just the month)

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/smart-values-date-and-time-functions/

You could add on your summary e.g. It's time to following with Customer XYZ - 1 August 2021" if you run your automation every 1st of the month.

Do you think you can work with that?

[Shah Baloch]

Hi @Alex Koxaras thank you for the quick response. For some reason, it's not including the date. Neither the custom date field displays date nor summary and description. Here is how I set it up.  Thanks

[Alex Koxaras]

Please paste your rule, as well as the results.

[Shah Baloch]

I deleted and recreated the rules and it worked. Thanks

[Iván Muñoz Martínez]

Hi @Alex Koxaras ,

I read your answer and I have another question.
How I write the summary?

For example:
This issue was created on {{issue.created.format("dd/MM/yyyy")}}

and the result is?

This issue was created on 06/10/2021

Thanks!

[Alex Koxaras]

Yes that is correct. You can also use this

This issue was created on {{issue.fields.created.format("dd/MM/yyyy")}}

[Iván Muñoz Martínez]

I have tried creating a ticket but I want to automate it with the option: Manage Scheduled Issues

I'll try the "Manage Scheduled Issues" with these summary.

[Iván Muñoz Martínez]

Hi @Alex Koxaras ,

I write the summary with this text and when the ticket is created the result is:

Do I need a gadget or script to use this?

My idea is to create automatic tickets with the date in the summary.

Thanks,

[Alex Koxaras]

You can use smart values on automation. You can't use them in fields when creating/editing an issue.

[Alex Koxaras]

Where do you write this summary? Within an automation? Inside a workflow?

[Iván Muñoz Martínez]

I have tried creating a ticket but I want to automate it with the option: Manage Scheduled Issues

I'll try the "Manage Scheduled Issues" with these summary.

[Alex Koxaras]

Do you have jira automation installed on your instance?

[Iván Muñoz Martínez]

I don't know because I am not a Jira administrator at the company where I work.
I'll check this point.

Thank you @Alex Koxaras .

[Iván Muñoz Martínez]

Hello @Alex Koxaras ,

I checked this point and we have Jira automation installed in our company but we have the lite version.

I don't know if this version supports this function ...

Thanks,

[Alex Koxaras]

I'm working on Cloud and this is pre installed as a native feature. I propose for you to try with the lite version and see. Smart values will work for sure.