Automation to Create Issues on a Reoccurring Day

[Amber Truesdell]

Goal: I want to create an automation that automatically creates a unique Jira Task issue for each of my direct reports on the last Monday of every month with a due date of the last business day of every month.

I have scoured the internet and this community and everything suggests I utilize the "When:Scheduled" trigger but when I go to add the next component of creating a new Jira issue, it is not an option.

To answer some potential questions:

 Yes I have the permission level required to create Jira issues on this specific project

- Yes I have the permission level to create automations

I have tried utilizing the basic and advanced versions of the "When:Scheduled" trigger and neither allow me to make the next component a "Then: Create Issue"

I would like to refrain from downloading any external script/scheduler plugins from Atlassian Marketplace if I can avoid it.

[Manon Soubies-Camy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Amber Truesdell and welcome to Community!

Have you tried selecting "All actions":

And then selecting the project and type of the new issue:

I believe Jira categorizes the "Create issue" action as incompatible with the "Scheduled" trigger because it doesn't know in which project to create the new issue nor which issue type to choose.

Hope this helps!

- Manon