How to set default date field on confiforms, or use IFTTT to pick a date if it's blank?

[Bill Mills]

Hello,  I have a confluence form with a non-mandatory date field that will only be populated for certain types of requests.  I need this field to feed into the created Jira Issue but unable to map blank fields from confiforms to Jira.   I don't see a way to set a default value in the date field, but I did find the below JSON that advised I can set a default date in the issue creation step:

#set ($thisDATE = "[entry.fldTargetStartDate.jiraDateTime]")

#if ("$!fldTargetStartDate" !="")

 #end

Problem is I don't understand how to integrate this into the IFTTT integration rule.   

The JSON for the field I want to transfer is:

"customfield_11412":"[entry.fldTargetStartDate.jiraDateTime]"

How do I add the #set, #if, #end  scripting into my IFTTT rule, with proper syntax?

Thanks!!

[Marcel Kleinlütke]

I try something that is nearly the same:

I want the user to gibe me a date (Monday of a week) and ConfiForm should generate the dates of Tuesday, Wensday ...Friday in Fields that I want to write into a table.

It works that these dates are entered by clicking into the field but I want less interaction to be nessesscary. Does it work with IFTTT or on a another way just with the ConfiForms that are there?

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

I afraid you will need to have multiple IFTTTs set to run conditionally for creation of each day entry

mydate.formatDate(u)

could get you numeric value for the "day in a week" for given date (in mydate field)

Alex

[Marcel Kleinlütke]

I did it with multyple IFTTT. I was wondering why but some of my solutions did not work at the first attemp. Without knowing what I did different the second time I think with the same approach and the same configuration and macros it worked.

Do u have sth for try n error people like me... how to debugg a confiform? what to take care of? a special way of sorting, naming?

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

The best I can advise is https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/How+to+troubleshoot+and+debug+ConfiForms+IFTTT+rules+execution

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

What is the (business) logic of setting the default date? In other words, how do you know what value to set?

And is this a question about setting the date to ConfiForms field or in Jira JSON mapping?

[Bill Mills]

When the field on the form is not completed (blank) I'd like to insert the current date as a default to allow it to transfer to Jira.   

Ideally, if easier, I'd like to set the confiforms date field to a default date of current date, but haven't been able to make it work.  

If that isn't possible, I found the JSON mapping as an alternate way of doing it. 

Thanks!

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

You can set up an IFTTT that Updates your ConfiForms record and sets the "fldTargetStartDate" to current date only if it's empty

Meaning that you put

https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Configuring+ConfiForms+IFTTT+actions+and+rules#ConfiguringConfiFormsIFTTTactionsandrules-Create(Update)ConfiFormsEntry 

with condition set to: fldTargetStartDate:[empty]

Parameters to set: entryId=[entry.id]&fldTargetStartDate=[entry._now]

Makes sense to set the "Stop events propagation"

This IFTTT needs to be placed BEFORE the one that attempts to create your Jira ticket

Alex

[Bill Mills]

That did it, thanks for your help!