Posting Date in a JDP field

[Martin]

Hello,

I am struggling with an automation. Simple, I want to add today's date to a custom field. I used the doc here: Product demo: Automation for Delivery 🤖 - Atlassian Community

Here is my statement:

{
"fields": {
"customfield_10552":"{\"start\":\"{{now.jiraDate}}\",
\"end\":\"{{now.jiradate}}\"}"
}
}

Here is the error I get:

Error while parsing additional fields. Not valid JSON.

Thank you for your help!

[Erin Quick-Laughlin · Accepted solution]

I believe it's because of the quotes surrounding the object that contains start and end props.

When I post your code into jsonlint.com, it shows this:

After I took those out, it also threw errors on the escapes, so try this?

{
  "fields": {
    "customfield_10552": {
      "start":"{{now.JiraDate}}",
      "end":"{{now.Jiradate}}"
    }
  }
}

BTW what kind of custom field type is this?

[Martin]

Thank you Erin. I'm bookmarking this tool.

It's a date field in JDP. 

I used the exemple provided by @Hermance NDounga in her documentation. Copy/Paste and changed the field number only.

[Martin]

I asked also a new friend, that sometimes, knows a lot. His name is chatGPT. It gave me the right formula and it works:

In your JSON, there is a small issue with the casing of the jiraDate placeholder. In Jira Automation, the correct casing for the current date placeholder is {{now.JiraDate}} with an uppercase "J" and "D".

Here's the corrected JSON:

{
"fields": {
"customfield_10552": "{\"start\":\"{{now.JiraDate}}\",\"end\":\"{{now.JiraDate}}\"}"
}
}

This JSON assigns the current Jira date to both the start and end properties within the customfield_10552 field.

[Chris Timms]

Commenting to track if anyone comes up with a solution to this one. My own investigation suggests it might be related to escaping special characters correctly, bbut I haven't been able to invest the time to look into it deeply.

Regards,

-C