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