Automation Rule date add function does not work.

[Sathishkumar Sundaram]

Dear All,

Its very encouraging to get response from the community. Thanks for the support.

I am presently facing an issue with Automation rule.

I have an Epic and its child Tasks (6 of them). When I change the start date of my Parent, I should change the child task with the same number of days.

The below code captures the difference.... which works fine.

{{issue.customfield_10015.diff(issue.parent.customfield_10015).days}}

I need to set the start date of my child task (customfield_10015) by adding this difference.

I used a variable to store the difference daysToAdd as number and even stored the converted value to another Variable formattedDaysToAdd using  ({{daysToAdd.asNumber}}

When I am adding the difference to a child issue,  using the below code, 

{{issue.customfield_10015.plusDays({{formattedDaysToAdd}})}}

I am getting an error. "Unable to render smart values when executing this rule:

Failed to get value for issue.customfield_10015.plusDays({{formattedDaysToAdd: {{issue.customfield_10015.plusDays({{formattedDaysToAdd}})}}"

No matter how I try to add, using a formatted variable, it's throwing the same error.

Any guidance here would be a great help to move forward.

Thanks in Advance.

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Sathishkumar Sundaram 

There are a couple of problems that need to be addressed.

When you use a smart value as input to a function you should not put curly braces around it. So you could use your variable thus:

...(variableName)

The second problem is that variables are strings. You can't change the variable storage type by using asNumber. Instead you have to use that when you use the variable with the plus days function:

...plusDays(variableName.asNumber)

Try making those changes and let us know the results.

[Sathishkumar Sundaram]

Thanks Trudy, It just worked fine.

[Sathishkumar Sundaram]

Got a Solution: 

It required an explicit formatting. (.asNumber). Below code works.

{{issue.customfield_10015.plusDays({{formattedDaysToAdd.asNumber}})}}