Schedule a work item
You can schedule due dates in Jira Cloud to track, review, and inform teams about when a work item is expected to be done. This powerful scheduling feature allows you to perform fixed and relative date searches based on specific due dates, as well as arbitrary search periods. You can also perform advanced searches using Jira Query Language.
Schedule a work item
To schedule a work item, populate its Due date field. This can be done either when creating a work item, or at a later stage by editing the work item.
To enable work item scheduling, at least one group or project role must be given the schedule work items permission by your Jira administrator. Only users with the schedule work items permission can populate the Due date field. More about managing project permissions.
Search by due date
You can use either basic search or advanced search to search for work items by their due date. More about basic search and advanced search in Jira Cloud.
To search by dates using the All work view:
From your project navigation, select All work.
Select More filters, then select Due date from the dropdown.
You can use this menu to search for work items that are:
Overdue at the time of the search – Choose Now overdue then Update.
Overdue by more than a certain number of days – Choose More than, enter the number of days, choose "days", and select Update.
Due within a certain number of days, but aren't overdue at the time of the search – Choose Due in next, enter the number of days, choose and not from the overdue box, then select Update.
Due within a certain number of days, or are overdue – Choose Due in next, enter the number of days, choose or is overdue or and not overdue from the overdue box, then select Update.
Due between two dates – Choose Between and enter a beginning and end date. A blank field means you're not constraining either the from or to date.
The In range option in the modal uses the relative period syntax described next.
Relative period search syntax
The Due date from and Due date to fields use a special syntax to denote time period bounds. The syntax uses numbers followed by abbreviations for the time period. The abbreviations are "w" for weeks, "d" for days, "h" for hours, and "m" for minutes.
For example, to specify 10 days in the future, use "10d" or "1w and 3d". To specify a period bound in the past, "-" sign before the time period. For example, to specify 2 days, 4 hours, and 3 minutes ago, use "-2d 4h 3m".
Using advanced search
You can also use Jira Query Language (JQL) to search for work items by due date. More about advanced searching in Jira Cloud, specifically, the due date field.
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