JSON date and time string to DateTime with smart values?

[Sam Lander]

I'm using Jira automation.

The incoming JSON on a webhook has "2021-11-23 23:45" in it.

I'd like to splat it into a customfield as a DateTime

So far, my attempts have yielded either a action failure or no data.

Best-guess I have is this, but that results in an empty field...

{{webhookData."Date and Time of Incident".toDateTime("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")}}

[Nir Haimov · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sam Lander 

Try ".toDateTime.as("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")

Try first to print it to the automation log, see if you get the result you want, then try to set it to a field.

Note that in order to set it to a field the format must be exactly as your dateTime customfields look like, make sure if you need use "-" or "/"

[Sam Lander]

Thanks for the suggestion @Nir Haimov 

I get 

Error creating issueError parsing time: 2021-04-12 14:23.toDateTime.as("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")}} (customfield_10032)

or

Error creating issueError parsing time: 2021-04-12 14:23.toDateTime("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")}} (customfield_10032)

using either method.

[Nir Haimov]

@Sam Lander can you send screenshot of the automation, so we can see exactly how look what you wrote?

[Sam Lander]

Thanks for pointing out the "Log Action", that made my life eeasier.

Screenshot:

[Nir Haimov]

No problem :)

According to the documentations, 

The following functions can be used to convert a date to a date with a time component:

{{now.toStartOfDay}}
{{now.toCurrentTime}}
{{now.toDateTimeAtStartOfDay}}
{{now.toDateTimeAtStartOfDay(timezone)}}
{{now.toDateTimeAtCurrentTime}}
{{now.toDateTimeAtCurrentTime(timezone)}}

Please try them out let me know if one of them works for you, if not, send screenshot with them too :)

[Sam Lander]

I think that this is the only possible answer. It is not so clean, because it implies stripping out the time with string ops, then adding it back into the DateTime created by blah.toDateTimeAtStartOfDay - I was hoping for something cleaner ....

I have implemented a workaround (a text field called "user-reported Time of Incident")  instead.