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Short descriptionThis function returns a timestamp equivalent of any given day plus an offset of n days where weekends don't count.Output

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This function returns a timestamp equivalent of any given day plus an offset of n days. Weekends will not count as extra days so this function returns regular working days adds or subtracts natural days (or working days) to or from any given date.

Weekends will notbecounted as working days.


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


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


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function returns the 
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example adds 2 working days to the issue's 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.
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example subtracts 2 working days from the issue's 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)


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example subtracts 6 working days from of a custom date-time field (with the ID 10100)

 - 6 working days

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



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ParameterInput (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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offset in days. Negative values are used to subtract days.

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

Negative values are used to substract days.

timeZone

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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. 

Learn more about working with dates, times and timezones.

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This function returns a 

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If represents a timestamp which coincides with a Friday, adding n = 1 will return a date-time for the following Monday.

Negative values for are used in order to subtract days to t.

(warning) Noten cannot be higher than 50000.

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Variant of the function where you can additionally 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 example adds 10 working days to the issue's due date.

Fridays and Saturdays are not counted and will be skipped.

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addDaysSkippingWeekends(
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{TUESDAY})


This example subtracts 2 working days from the issue's due date.

Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays are not counted and will be skipped..

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timestamp

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numberOfDays

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The offset in days. Negative values are used to subtract 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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Valid values are {MONDAY}{TUESDAY} ... {SUNDAY}.
endOfWeekend

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Valid values are {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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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 one of the JWT calculated date-time fields.

If you want to subtract two date-time values you might want to have a look at the function subtractDatesSkippingWeekends().




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If represents a timestamp which coincides with a Friday, adding n = 1 will return a date-time for the following Monday.

Negative values for are used in order to subtract days to t.

(warning) Noten cannot be higher than 50000.
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Short descriptionAdds or subtracts natural days (or working days) to or from any given date.
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