trying to set the date between two options to the minimum

[Una Horne]

basically, i have a task that needs to (once autopopulated) set the due date to either tuesday or friday depending on which one is closer. i have no issues with making it populate to tuesday OR friday with {{now.withNextDayOfWeek("XXX")}}, but i know there is a function that can be used "min" to make it decide which one to assign it to. is there any solution to this? ive tried:

{{MIN(now.withNextDayOfWeek("TUE"), now.withNextDayOfWeek("FRI"))}}{{(now.withNextDayOfWeek("TUE"), now.withNextDayOfWeek("FRI"))MIN}}{{now.withNextDayOfWeek("TUE"),("FRI").min}}

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Una Horne 

Your syntax is not correct for using the min function...

The min function may be used with the long, format of a math expression or with a list of values (either numbers or dates / times).

One way to solve what you asked is to create a list of dates to use the min function:

{{now.withNextDayOfWeek("TUE").jiraDate.concat(",").concat(now.withNextDayOfWeek("FRI").jiraDate).split(",").toDate.min}}

How that works:

• starting with {{now}} get the next Tuesday, formatting it as text
• concatenate that with a comma to make list separation easier
• concatenate that with the next Friday, formatting it as text
• split the values back into a list
• convert the text to dates
• and finally the min function will work to find the date

Kind regard,
Bill