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Issue template is basically a definition of an issue you plan to create. You can define it using a form that closely resembles JIRA's native "Create Issue" form (with few exceptions, described later on):
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Once you define a template, you can specify how often The Scheduler should create the issue for you. You can either use the user-friendly trigger picker, or simply provide a Quartz cron expression to define the interval. This is set on the final stage (1), after clicking "Create" (or "Update" in case of previously created scheduled issue edition) button, as presented.The below illustrates its location:
and here's how "Cron" trigger type looks:
Manual Scheduled Issues
That being said, Trigger Definition is actually optional - you can simply create a "Manual" (1) Scheduled Issue that you can then execute manually from the Scheduled Issues tab panel. This is a perfect solution if you want to simply define a number of Issue Templates that you would rather create "on demand" than to create them periodically.
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