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Add a scheduled action

To add a Scheduled action:

1. Navigate to Jira Settings → Manage apps → Scheduled actions.
   

   

2. Click Add scheduled action on the top right corner to navigate to Scheduled action editor where you can add the configuration details.
   

   

   
   Add the following:

   • Action name (mandatory): Enter a meaningful name for the action.

   • Description: Enter a more detailed explanation of what the action would accomplish.

   • User (mandatory): Start typing into the field to select a user from the auto-suggestions. The scheduled action is run as the selected user.

   • Schedule (mandatory): Set the schedule for this action. This schedule is defined in UTC time. You can run the schedule every hour, every day, every week, every month, or every year at specific times. A schedule can be set as frequently as once every 10 minutes. For examples of different schedules, click here.

   • Target Issues (mandatory): Select issues on which the specified post-functions are run.

     • JQL Expression (mandatory): Enter a JQL expression that returns a set of issues. For example, to fetch issues from ProjA in Open status, use:
       project = ProjA and status = open
       You can also include Groovy Template markup that returns a JQL query. For example, to fetch issues assigned to the current user, use:
       <% if (issue.get("assignee")) { %> assignee = ${currentUser.name} <% } else { %> issuekey=INVALID-1 <% } %>

     • Max. issues (mandatory): Enter the maximum number of issues that the JQL search can return. The maximum limit here is 1000.

   • Post-functions: Add one or more post-functions that are run on each issue returned by the JQL search mentioned in the previous section.
     Click Add post-function to navigate to the window that lists all the available post-functions. Select a post-function, configure as needed and add it to the list here. The post-functions added here are run in the sequence displayed. You can use the ☰ handle to drag a post-function and drop it wherever required in the list to reorder the sequence.
     Use Edit or Remove to make changes to the respective post-function or delete it from the list here.

   • Error handling
     Skip subsequent post-functions if a post-function encounters an error: Select this option to skip running the remaining post functions in the sequence when an error occurs in one of the post functions.

3. Click Save to save the configuration and add the scheduled action to the list on the Scheduled actions page.

Examples of schedules

Token	Minutes past the hour	Hour of the day	Day of the Week/Month	Month of the year	Example
Hour	It can be one or more of 0, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50	NA	NA	NA	To run the schedule at 10 and 20 minutes past every hour
Day	It can be one or more of 0, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50	The hours can be one or more of 0 to 23 hours.	NA	NA	To run the schedule every day at 10:30 am To run the schedule every day at 12 am and 12 pm
Week	It can be one or more of 0, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50	The hours can be one or more of 0 to 23 hours.	One or more days of the week or "every day of the week" to run the action every day	NA	To run the schedule every day of the week at 10:20 pm To run the schedule every Tuesday and Thursday of the week at 9 am and 9 pm
Month	It can be one or more of 0, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50	The hours can be one or more of 0 to 23 hours.	One or more days of the month	NA	To run the schedule every day of the month, every month at 12:00 AM To run the schedule 10th and 20th of every month at 6 am and 2 pm
Year	It can be one or more of 0, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50	The hours can be one or more of 0 to 23 hours.	One or more days of the month	One or more months of the year	To run the schedule every year on every day of the month of April at 10 am To run the schedule every year on 11th of April at 12 am

Edit a scheduled action

1. Click Edit in the Scheduled actions screen to modify the respective scheduled action.

2. Modify the action details in the Scheduled action editor screen.

3. Click Save to save the changes.

Delete a scheduled action

1. Click Delete in the Scheduled actions screen to remove the respective scheduled action permanently.

2. Click OK in the confirmation dialog to confirm. The scheduled action is deleted.

Enable/disable a scheduled action

In the Scheduled actions screen, turn the toggle Off or On to disable or enable the respective scheduled action. By default, a newly created scheduled action is enabled.