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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 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 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 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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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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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 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 issue's due date.

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 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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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. 

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 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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