Copy fixversion release date to custom date field

[test user]

Hi All, 

I want to copy the old date of fixversion release into another custom field after every time changing a Release date of Fixversion.

can anybody help me to achieve this?

[Andy Heinzer]

Hi,

If I understand your request, you want to be able to track the changes to a versions release date in Jira by storing that data into a custom field.  I don't have a way to do this exactly as you have asked, but I'll try to explain what makes this particular request difficult to achieve.

Custom fields in Jira are always in relation to the issues themselves.  However a release or version takes the form of a different kind of object than an issue.  In turn Jira can't create custom fields specifically for versions (or releases).  Even if we could store this data on a Jira issue, it is problematic to try to maintain this data there because issues in Jira can be added to or leave a version at any time.  So updating these issues wouldn't be a single place to make a change, but possibly lots and lots of updates to issues about the same data.

But you should be aware that Jira Server is already tracking these changes to versions.  The data in regards to their release dates is stored within the audit log.  More details on how to view that are in Auditing in Jira. If you are Jira admin in the global permission, you can reach this page by going to the Cog Icon -> System -> Audit log.  You can see an entry like this one where I changed 'Version 4' release date in project SAMPLE is tracked like so:

If you are not a Jira admin, then you do not have access to this data directly yourself.  I hope this helps.

Andy