Schedule work items creation with Jira Cloud automation

Summary

Learn how to schedule recurring work items in Jira to occur on business days of each month.

Solution

Configure the automation with smart values

For this use case, it's not possible to use the basic or advanced scheduling (CRON expressions) in the Scheduled Trigger in automation.

You can configure the rule as follows to achieve this:

1. Trigger: Scheduled Trigger - Runs daily at a specified time.

2. If Condition: Smart Values Condition.

   1. First value: {{now.jiraDate}}

   2. Condition: equals

   3. Second value: {{now.firstBusinessDayOfMonth.plusBusinessDays(1).jiraDate}}

3. Action: Create Work Item: specify the details like project, work type etc.

In the above example, it will create the work item only if the date matches the 2nd business day of the month.