How to create recurring issues in JIRA Software (Cloud)

[Brianna Leatham]

I am trying to find a way to create recurring issues for my facilities team, but there does not appear to be an "easy" way to do this without the help of a scheduler add-on from the Marketplace. Am I wrong? Does anyone know of a way to do this without the add-on? Thanks! 

[Nic Brough [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

You definitely need some sort of scheduler to be able to do this.

The Scheduler plugin is an option of course, but I cheat.  Almost everywhere I work, I've got access to a unix-like server (often just "the Linux machine running JIRA") which I can rely on to run scripts.  If you can write a simple script that can poke new issues into JIRA via the REST interface, then you can add it to "cron" on a unix-like box, so that it runs regularly, as frequently as you need.  For Cloud, this does need you to have machine to run the scripts though.

[Brianna Leatham]

Thank you, as always, Nic! 😊

[Guhan Kandasubramaniam]

Multi sub task creation is useful to create recurring sub tasks. If you are expecting recurring stories, then it is expensive!

[Nic Brough [Adaptavist]]

I can't find that in the marketplace - could you give us a pointer?