Recurring issues

[Diane Arsenault]

I'd like to add recurring issues to my JIRA projects. Have you been successful with this?

[Rp Subhub · Accepted solution]

There's (paid) The Scheduler plugin. Haven't tried it myself though.

[Jeremy Largman]

Jelly scripts and the remote API are built-in, but I think the easiest place to start is the Command Line Interface from Bob Swift, it's a great tool. You'd use the createIssue command. Check the 'examples' page:

jira --action createIssue --project "zjiracli" --type "task" --summary "This is content."

[Bob Swift]

Further to Jeremy's answer: How to create projects or sets of issues based on a template

[CodeDoers]

You can also use Repeating Issues for JIRA https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.codedoers.jira.repeating-issues

This add-on can execute different actions repeatedly for given issue e.g. clone issue, create sub-task in issue, reopen issue

[Detlef Steinhäuser [Communardo]]

@CodeDoers: So far, I have had trouble understanding the "Issue workflow". The user documentation do not shows any good examples for this.  

A useful scenario for this action is to reopen a single issue at the end of its lifecycle again and again . Copies of this issue will not created and are not necessary.

Not aim of this action is that it triggers a transition in the middle of workflow.

Did I understand that feature correctly?

[Diane Arsenault]

Hi Jermey,

Yes, as you described: to-do type reminder. Jelly script, CLI and remote API are all new to me so I guess I still have a steep learning curve. I am new and the pm on this project is intense so I hope I can figure it out soon. :)

[Jeremy Largman]

What do you mean by 'recurring issues'? Do you mean like a to-do type reminder that gets created once a week, or something like that?

If so, you can run either a Jelly script, or use the JIRA CLI or the remote API with a cron job.