Jira automation: How to increment a Date Field by Business Days Based on a Custom Number Field
Platform Notice: Cloud - This article applies to Atlassian products on the cloud platform.
Summary
Jira Automation Rule to Increment a Date Based on a Custom Number Field, Excluding Weekends
Solution
Use case:
Automatically update the Due date based on a number custom field and the creation date, excluding weekends. For example, if an issue is created on September 25, 2024, and the custom number field specifies 4 days (named daysWorking in below example), the due date should be set to October 1, 2024.
To achieve this, you can utilize the below smart value expression.
{{issue.created.plusBusinessDays(issue.daysWorking)}}