Advanced schedules

[Aon]

We require means of creating multiple issues on varying schedules, many of which are to be created on the first even week of a month. Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, this cannot be achieved with cron. The only way I can think of is creating a completely custom schedule of once-type triggers, but that would be an awful lot of work to repeat and keep updated on tens of schedules.

I'm aware of the feature that allows specifying holidays in a calendar and having the Scheduler skip them. Would it be possible to also specify dates in the calendar for various schedules, and then have a trigger type "calendar", which allows for choosing which schedule on the calendar it'll follow?

Another, rather unpleasant alternative would be inserting once-type triggers directly into database. This would make applying the same triggers to multiple schedules relatively easy. Any problems with this approach?

(Scheduler 5.1.3 running on JIRA 7.9.2.)

[Łukasz Modzelewski]

Hi Aon, Please use our customer portal for any future requests: https://psc-software.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/10

As for the feature idea, we have in our backlog task about making calendar trigger type. We will add this to our Roadmap shortly: https://trello.com/b/y0Gcukqh/the-scheduler-for-jira-server-roadmap This would be an UI option to pick multiple dates for the execution of SI. As you noticed, you can do something similar by adding multiple run once triggers.

However, if you have lots of issues that should be created at the same time, instead of adding triggers to each one of them, you could try to use import/export feature and just modify the trigger details section. It would save you some time, but you need to test it first. Be aware that: after you remove SI from system, and import it, details are the same, but history of SI execution is los as it is recreated with new ID (not restored)

Cheers, Łukasz

PS. Consider updating to latest version of The Scheduler 6.0.0, since 5.1.3 there were some changes and new features. Here is a link to version history, where you can catch up with changes: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/37456/the-scheduler/version-history

[Aon]

Thanks for the tip, I'll look into the import/export approach.