Automation: Am wanting to migrate Stories over to another board once they pass certain time

[Joshua Buchanan]

Hey Guys,

I'm trying to migrate old stories over to another board once they hit an age of at least 12 weeks in our backlog.

How it would work:

Stories on Board A reach a date of 12 weeks in 'To Do', so they are automatically moved to Board B.

That is what I've drafted up, however, I am struggling to get my head around the condition - is that right?

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

How are you construct your automation will depend completely upon how are you define board B. Specifically what is unique about Board B ithat would make an issue show up on it? For example let’s say that board be defined old issues and you have a custom field that helps you to find that. So if that board used that custom field to illustrate the issues then your automation would simply set that custom field  value. Now I assume you’re not using a custom feel for this that was just an example however you need some field or distinction that defines feel board B. 

[Joshua Buchanan]

Hey Jack, 

Thanks for the response - I don't have any custom fields (you are right), but was hoping to use the Created & Updated dates to determine what goes to board be (with it scraping anything that falls into 12+ weeks). Also, the tickets would need to be sitting in 'To Do'.

Does that make sense?

[Jack Brickey]

Well you might be able to simply use the created date to find your boards. For instance the first board could be something like this

project = abc and createddate <= startofday(“-10d”) and status = “to do”

and the other board would be 

project = abc and createddate > startofday(“-10d”) and status = “to do”

Please note that I’m not where I can test these JQL’s and I think there’s some tweaking that needs to be done but I just wanted to get the concept in your head

[Joshua Buchanan]

Thanks Jack - I'll give it a try.