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This function adds or substracts natural days (or working days) to/from any given date. Weekends will not be counted as working days.

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This function adds or substracts natural days (or working days) to/from any given date.

Weekends will not be counted as working days.

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addDaysSkippingWeekends(timestamp, numberOfDays, timeZone) #Output: Number

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addDaysSkippingWeekends({issue.duedate}, 2, LOCAL)

This function adds 2 working days to the

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of the issue due date.

If the due date is set to a Monday the function will return a date-time for Wednesday .
If the due date is set to a Friday the function will return a date-time for Tuesday.

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addDaysSkippingWeekends({issue.duedate}, -2, LOCAL)

This function substracts 2 working days from the

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of the issue due date.

If the due date is set to a Monday the function will return a date-time for Thursday.
If the due date is set to a Friday the function will return a date-time for Wednesday.

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addDaysSkippingWeekends({issue.cf10100}, -6, USER_LOCAL)

This function substracts 6 working days from the

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of a custom date-time field (with the ID 10100).

Instead of the Jira server's local time this example uses the current user's time zone.

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Parameter Input (data type) Description

timestamp

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The parameter must be valid timestamp. Usually this value is retrieved from a field (e.g. due date, created date).

numberOfDays

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The number defined here will be the offset in days.

Negative values are used to substract days.

Internally JWT multiplies this value with the time macro {DAY} to add full days to the timestamp. Learn more about time macros.

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The time zone used for the calculation.

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Work days might depend on the time zone - it might be Sunday on the west coast of the US while at the same time it's already Monday in Australia.

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This function returns a

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representing a timestamp.

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The output can be written into any Jira field of type Date Picker ore Date Time Picker.

Another very common use case is to use this function in a JWT calculated date-time fields.

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Variant of the function where you can define the start and the end of the weekend .

This function is useful when the non-working days differ from the standard (Saturday/Sunday).

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addDaysSkippingWeekends(timestamp, numberOfDays, timeZone, startOfWeekend, endOfWeekend) #Output: Number

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addDaysSkippingWeekends({issue.duedate}, 10, LOCAL, {FRIDAY}, {SATURDAY})

This function adds 10 working days to the

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of the issue due date.

Fridays and Saturdays are not counted.

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addDaysSkippingWeekends({issue.duedate}, -2, LOCAL, {SUNDAY}, {TUESDAY})

This function substracts 2 working days to the

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of the issue due date.

Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays are not counted.

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Parameters used in this function

Parameter Input (data type) Description

timestamp

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The parameter must be valid timestamp. Usually this value is retrieved from a field (e.g. due date, created date).

numberOfDays

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The number defined here will be the offset in days.

Negative values are used to substract days.

Internally JWT multiplies this value with the time macro {DAY} to add full days to the timestamp. Learn more about time macros.

timeZone

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The time zone used for the calculation.

startOfWeekend

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The parameter will take values in the format of {MONDAY},{TUESDAY}...{SUNDAY}

endOfWeekend

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The parameter will take values in the format of {MONDAY},{TUESDAY}...{SUNDAY}

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Work days might depend on the time zone - it might be Sunday on the west coast of the US while at the same time it's already Monday in Australia.

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This function returns a

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representing a timestamp.

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The output can be written into any Jira field of type Date Picker ore Date Time Picker.

Another very common use case is to use this function in a JWT calculated date-time fields.

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