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Setup repeating details

  1. Go to issue view .

  2. Select More > Repeat 

    Select More > Repeat from issue action navigation bar or

    click 

    click Set repeating

     in 

     in Repeating Issue section

     on

     on the right panels.

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  3. On repeating configuration dialog please

    select 

    select Clone Issue

     for repeat

     for repeat action field.

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Configuration fields for Clone Issue action

Field name

Description

Reporter

User which will be set as reporter of new cloned issue.

Info
  • This is not the creator of new issue. The creator of new issue will be the user who

set-up

Assignee

User which will be set as assignee of new cloned issue.

Remove me from watchers

When selected - the creator will not be notified of any changes to new cloned issue.

Info
  • This field is only visible if watching is enabled in Jira General Configuration > Options > Allow users to watch issues

  • Creator will be removed from watchers only if he has "Manage watcher list" permission in project

Summary

Summary that will be set to new cloned issue.

This field can have parameters like ${repeatingDate} - for details please

follow 

follow Velocity references in field values

Repeat for

Defines which date field of issue

date

should be repeated accordingly with recurrence rule:

issue

the create date or

issue

the due date.

For example, if

issue 

issue duration is 2 days, and the repeating

occurence

occurrence falls

on 

on 10 January 2017

then

 (based on recurrence rule) then:

when 
  • when issue create date

 is
  •  is selected - new cloned issue will be

cloned at 
  • created at 10 January

2017
  • 2017 with due date

equal 
  • equal 12 January 2017 (due date is calculated to be 2 days after 10 January 2017)

when 
  • when issue due date

 is
  •  is selected - new cloned issue will be

cloned at 
  • created at 8 January 2017

 with
  •  with due date

equal 
  • equal 10

January 2017 
  • January 2017 (create date is calculated to be 2 days before 10 January 2017)

Info

Issue create date and issue due date is calculated with non-working days adherence. For details read Managing non-working days

Issue duration

The number of working days between new cloned issue created date and due date.

Please

read 

read how to configure non-working days.

Notify watchersWhen selected - watchers of new created issue will be notified via email. See Email notifications.

Clone sub-tasks

When selected - all sub-tasks from source issue will be cloned as sub-tasks to new cloned issue.

Sub-task can also have VTL expressions in summary. Just create sub-task in parent issue with summary like: "$repeating.date Sub-task template". When this sub-task will be cloned parameters will be interpolated.

Clone links

When selected - all source issue links (excluding Clone link) will be cloned to new cloned issue.

Clone attachments

When selected - all source issue attachments will be copied to new cloned issue.

Clone sprint values

When selected and Jira Agile is available - sprint field values from source issue will be also cloned to new cloned issue.

Notify watchers

When selected - watchers of new cloned issue will be notified via email.

...

See Email notifications.

Note

Note that only watchers copied to cloned issue will be notified. Please make sure that the Repeating Issues app has enabled cloning watchers option - see Managing Clone Issue action options.

Mute success notifications

When selected -  notifications of correct execution will not be sent. See Email notifications.

Other system and custom fields

After clicking "More..." on repeating issue dialog more system and custom fields defined in Jira will be available. Each field will have simple form input where static value or dynamic value can be provided - see Velocity Template Language in Repeating Issues add-on.