How do I modify the ConfiForm date to the format needed by JIRA

[Chris_Stewart]

I'm creating a form using ConfiForms to create a JIRA task. Here is the code that I currently have located in a IFTTT to create JIRA Issue. Then a No Format macro inside of that, which contains the following code:

{

  "fields": {
     "project":
     {
     "key": "TASK"
     },
     "summary": "[entry.summary]",
     "description": "[entry.details]",
     "issuetype": { "name": "Task" },
     "assignee": { "name": "[entry.user]" },
     "customfield_20721": [{"id":"[entry.categories]"} ],
     "duedate":"[entry.duedate]" 
  }
}

This code worked perfectly when the duedate was manually entered (coded date) with the expected format ("duedate":"2012-10-10" ). Unfortunately, the format that confiForms is passing through is MMM dd, yyyy; which causes a "Could not prepare JSON..." error. 

Q: How can I change the format from MMM dd, yyyy to the format that JIRA is expecting: yyyy-MM-dd?

[Chris_Stewart]

In case someone else comes across this issue. The solution was: "duedate":"[entry.duedate.jiraDate]"

Note:
The first "duedate" is the JIRA field that the data will go to.

The duedate in the [entry.duedate...] is the name of my confiform field that the data is being pulled from. 

I probably should not have named my form field the same as the JIRA field.

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Please look at Virtual functions in ConfiForms. We have some helper functions for exactly your needs

jiraDate

Same as "formatDate" method above, but specifies constant dateformat pattern (yyyy-MM-dd), suitable for JIRA REST API

jiraDateTime

Same as "formatDate" method above, but specifies constant dateformat pattern ("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ"), should be compatible with ISO 8601 standard as JIRA requires when setting timestamps to JIRA fields

[Roeland T_Jampens]

This helper function is not available in the filter.action? How can I retrieve another date format than the double when using the search function of the REST api?

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

You can specify the "fields" parameter in REST API call as described here https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/REST+API#RESTAPI-Searchentries to decorate/transform the field value as needed (with virtual functions)

[Roeland T_Jampens]

Thanks Alex, it works.

[Elavrasi]

Hi Alex ,

Is the "fields" parameter in REST API call applicable only to search entries ? shall we use it in create entry REST API call ? will it work ?

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Not sure I understand the question here, sorry... the format for the JSON is based on the spec given by Atlassian.

https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-examples/

This is where this "fields" node comes from

[Elavrasi]

Hi Alex,

my question is as per below link we can use fields parameter in REST API for searching entries in confiforms. so is it possible to use the fields parameter to create an entry ?

 https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/REST+API#RESTAPI-Searchentries 

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Sorry, I dont quite understand... you refer to the API that helps you to search ConfiForms entries - how is this connected to "create and entry"? Creating an entry can be done using this API - https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/REST+API#RESTAPI-Createentry

[SP]

I have same issue.

JIRA DATE Format: '2020-05-12T17:36:00.000-0500'

Confiform date: entry.TestDate.jiraDateTime

Tried format: entry.TestDate.formatDate(yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ) ( Actual time is May 12, 2020 01:30 )

JIRA output: 11/May/20 8:30 PM

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

So in the mapping  you need to set this as 

"some_jira_datetime_field":"[entry.TestDate.jiraDateTime]"  

 Assuming you have "TestDate" as a date/datetime field in ConfiForms 

[SP]

I tried that one but didn’t help

[SP]

In confiform I set field as datetime 

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

OK, and what is the problem? You have mentioned you are having the same issue, but what exactly is your issue? 

I see the time difference in your examples and that might be the difference in timezones you have for Confluence/Jira. Or the differences in how your profiles are set in Confluence /Jira and if they use the same "timezone"

[SP]

am in central timezone.

Issues is the time which am choosing in confiform is central timezone but when I send to jira the time got change.

But when I am doing manually in jira I cloud see datetime in cst 

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

And you servers have different time? Are they in a different timezone?

[SP]

Yes

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

And that time differs from your time 7 hours?

[SP]

Confluence 

system timezone etc/utc 

jira

time zone gmt-06:00 chicago

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

And this is the answer, right? That is why you see a different time in Jira (compared to Confluence)

[SP]

is that possible to format datetime ? 

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Where? Where do you want to format datetime? In ConfiForms?

Yes, we do have various functions, including the one to formatDate (and time)

https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Virtual+functions

[SP]

confiform, is there any way to substract time in formatDate? like -86400000 milliseconds

[SP]

"date_field": "[entry.TestDate.formatDate(yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ)]" is that possible to do changes here for my requirement.

[Chris_Stewart]

I’ve used the following in some of my projects to add or subtract time:

[entry.somedatefield.timestamp.add(86400000)]

to subtract just add a “-“ sign in front of the milliseconds.

this can be found on the Virtual Functions page Alex mentioned above by searching “add(number)”. It’s a very useful page.

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Yes, that's right. Thanks @Chris_Stewart 

Then something like this:

[entry.somedatefield.timestamp.add(-86400000).jiraDateTime]

[SP]

[entry.somedatefield.timestamp.add(-86400000).jiraDateTime] - worked

Thanks @Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ and @Chris_Stewart