Purpose

In Automation for Jira, you can configure the execution period with Schedule Trigger in the following ways.

• Fixed date schedule

  • ex: every X Days/Hours/Minutes

• Advanced (CRON expressions)

“Advanced(CRON expressions)“ is popular when you specify the time.
However, the configuration of “execute 9:30 AM to 10:00 PM from Monday to Friday in every 15 minutes“ is difficult to express in CRON expressions.

// NG It works "9:00 AM", "9:15 AM", "10:00 PM", "10:15 PM", "10:30 PM" and "10:45 PM"
0 0/15 9-22 * * MON-FRI *

You can also configure with multiple CRON lines in Linux, but “Automation for Jira“ is unable to configure with multiple CRON lines. You need to separate Automation, but it will be complicated.

// "Automation for Jira" can't be setting in multiple lines
0 30,45 9 * * MON-FRI *
0 0/15 10-21 * * MON-FRI *
0 0 22 * * MON-FRI *

Solution

You can exclude the specified date by using Advanced compare condition.

Using the built-in functions “now”, you can get the current date and compare it with the condition, and you can exclude the specified date. Following these configurations, you can get the configuration “execute 9:30 AM to 10:00 PM from Monday to Friday in every 15 minutes“.

CRON expressions

// CRON Expression: It works "9:00 AM", "9:15 AM", "10:00 PM", "10:15 PM", "10:30 PM" and "10:45 PM"
0 0/15 9-22 * * MON-FRI *

Advanced compare condition

(Tips)Audit Log

• When Automation is succeeded, Status will be SUCCESS

• When Condition rejected to Automation, Status will be NO ACTIONS PERFORMED