Delay comments

[Alex]

Can I when posting a comment delay the time that it is sent to a recipient I.E want it to look like its sent at a particular time?

[Mike Bowen]

Hi @Alex 

Not that I am aware of. Why would you want to do that and would you want that to happen every time? 

-Mike

[Kevin Campbell]

I would love to see this ability as well. The why is because sometimes as a freelancer I'm working over the weekend to get caught up but I don't want my client to know that because then they might start sending me responsed and questions.

My goal is to send the comment that the issue is complete and I need them to approve it without:

1. Having them know I'm working over the weekend and start sending me things on a regular over the weekend. I always let my customer's know that I don't work on the weekend and I want it to stay that way, even if occasionally I do work over the weekend.

2. I don't want to have to remember to do it later. I'd like to work as if it is a work day and just keep my normal workflow and let the software deal with sending it on Monday and not me having to remember.

[cedwards]

Agree!  I want the delay feature for similar reasons!

[Sabrina Latapy]

Me too! With the increase in work-from-home culture, flexible hours are far more socially accepted than they used to be. Think of the digital nomads....
I would love this feature. It's already available in other applications like Outlook, Teams, and Slack. I'd love to see this is my favorite application: Jira. And then, maybe Confluence too.

[SIMON PATENAUDE]

I agree with this fully. I tend to work late into the night, that said, because I work late, I don't want to set the expectation that my team also has to follow suit. I want to respect their downtime. 

I would love to delay the message until the following morning. 

The only workaround to this is by creating an email with the ticket number in the subject line. I then send it to Jira. This works okayish. it laks the feature i want from Jira natively.

[Sabrina Latapy]

@SIMON PATENAUDE  - wait what?! You can email comments to Jira to post them?! That's brilliant! How do I do that?

[SIMON PATENAUDE]

@Sabrina Latapy 

This is what I found:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/create-issues-and-comments-from-email/

There are a few ways for the Jira admins to configure it. It does come in handy, but only works with licensed users.