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This function adds or

substracts

subtracts natural days (or working days) to

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or from any given date.

Weekends will notbecounted as working days.

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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
dueDate}, 2, LOCAL)


This

function

example adds 2 working days to

the 
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 of the issue

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.
duedate
dueDate}, -2, LOCAL)


This

function substracts

example subtracts 2

days to the 
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titleTimestamp
 of the issue

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)


This

function substracts

example subtracts 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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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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The

number defined here will be the

offset in days. 

Negative values are used to

substract

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. 

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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 a JWT calculated date-time field.

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

This function adds or substracts natural days (or working days) to/from any given date. Weekends will not be counted as working days.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
dueDate},
2
10, LOCAL, {FRIDAY}, {SATURDAY})


This

function

example adds

2 days to the 
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subtletrue
titleTimestamp
 of the issue

10 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

Fridays and Saturdays are not counted and will be skipped..


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


This

function substracts

example subtracts 2

days to the 
Status
subtletrue
titleTimestamp
 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 days from the 

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subtletrue
titleTimestamp
 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.

working days from the issue's due date.

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



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Parameters used in this function

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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titlenumber

The

number defined here will be the

offset in days. 

Negative values are used to

substract

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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titletimezone

The time zone used for the calculation. 

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startOfWeekend

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number

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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 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 

one of the JWT calculated

date-time field.

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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Short descriptionAdds or subtracts natural days (or working days) to or from any given date.
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