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

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This function adds or substracts 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.duedatedueDate}, 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.duedatedueDate}, -2, LOCAL)


This function substracts example subtracts 2 working days from the 

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



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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

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subtract 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. 



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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This function returns a 

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Variant of the function 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.duedatedueDate}, 10, LOCAL, {FRIDAY}, {SATURDAY})


This function example adds 10 working days to the 

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


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


This function substracts example subtracts 2 working days to the 

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



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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.

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The time zone used for the calculation. 

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startOfWeekend

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

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The parameter will take values in the format of 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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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

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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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