Can i add the date a ticket was created to the issue key ?

[Marvin de reuck]

Hi All,

My manager recently asked me to create a new JIRA project for one our teams and advised that the issue key needs to have the created_date in it. e.g E_2019/09/27_123

Is there a way to do this ? 

[Dave Rosenlund]

Hi, @Marvin de reuck What is your manager’s use case? Perhaps there is another way to skin this cat.  -dave 

[Jack Brickey]

agree. the implementation request seems flawed on the surface. maybe if he stated the requirement vs. the solution you could present a suitable solution.

[Joe Pitt]

No. Issue keys are created sequentially. I doubt it, but there may be a plugin that allows modifying the issue key. There have been lots of discussion about modifying the key structure but I haven't seen any solutions. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Not even a plugin can do this.  The issue key is held in a numeric field for a start, so there's nowhere you could put a date string, and even if you could, all of the code that works with the issue key would have to be rewritten.

I would question the "requirement" for this, I think your manager has come up with a really bad solution for a problem we can probably suggest a more sensible (and possible) way to address it.