Predefined Values in Summary and Description Fields



Presented predefined variables are available for The Scheduler for Jira Server.

If you are looking for variables for Jira Cloud visit this page: Predefined values in any issue fields



The Scheduler has predefined variables which can be used in the Summary and Description. When Scheduled Issue is fired these variables are converted to the corresponding values:

Variable

Meaning

Examples

Variable

Meaning

Examples

${fireCount}

Fire count

5

${createdDate.month}

Creation month

February

${createdDate.year}

Creation year

2015

${dueDate.month}

Due month

February

${dueDate.year}

Due year

2015

${createdDate.date}

Creation date in format dd/MMM/YY

10/Feb/15

${dueDate.date}

Due date in format dd/MMM/YY

10/Feb/15

${createdDate.completeDateTime}

Creation date in format dd/MMM/YY hh:mm

10/Feb/15 2:05 PM

${dueDate.completeDateTime}

Due date in format dd/MMM/YY hh:mm

10/Feb/15 2:05 PM

${createdDate.format("dd-MM-YYYY HH:mm")}

Creation date in custom format

10-02-2015 14:05

${dueDate.format("dd-MM-YYYY HH:mm")}

Due date in custom format

10-02-2015 14:05





You can define your own date format using the last two variables - simply by replacing the dd-MM-YYYY HH:mm with the desired format. You can use following letters in date format:

Symbol

Meaning

Presentation

Examples

Symbol

Meaning

Presentation

Examples

G

Era designator

text

AD

C

Century of era (>=0)

number

20

Y

Year of era (>=0)

year

2007

y

Year

year

2007

x

Weekyear

year

2007

w

Week of weekyear

number

27

e

Day of week

number

2

E

Day of week

text

Tuesday; Tue

D

Day of year

number

189

M

Month of year

month

July; Jul; 07

d

Day of month

number

10

a

Halfday of day

text

PM

K

Hour of halfday (0~11)

number

0

h

Clockhour of halfday (1~12)

number

12

H

Hour of day (0~23)

number

0

k

Clockhour of day (1~24)

number

24

m

Minute of hour

number

30

s

Second of minute

number

55

S

Milisecond

number

978

z

Time zone

text

Pacific Standard Time; PST

Z

Time zone offset/id

zone

-0800; -08:00; America/Los_Angeles





Base usage example:

On the 2nd screen of the Scheduled Issue wizard, which is named "Set Issue Details" (1), there's a possibility to add above presented predefined variable, into the "Summary" and "Description" fields. In the below picture, I've presented a situation whee "fire count" (2) has been inserted into the "summary" and most of variables possible to enter I've placed in a table - it is possible to use it in "Visual" (6) mode. Left column contains variable meaning (3) and right (4) is a variable itself. In addition to that, the last row, marked in green contains customized own date format. After all was set, I've followed to the next screen by pressing "Next" (7) an saved newly created issue on the third, final screen.

The built-in validator checks and makes impossible to create a scheduled issue with wrong variable input (after pressing next you receive an error in such case, pointing to what's incorrect).

After scheduled issue execution, I've received an expected outcome:

All of the variables were successfully converted into desired values.



Predefined variables could be used in many ways, here is one of the complex usage examples allowing you to embed images (or link to some external resources), if you know the right pattern: Adding attachments to Scheduled Issues - workaround



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