Call Function with argument in Jira Automation

[Jakob Wendt]

I am stuck at a problem that probably shouldn't be one.

I want to calculate a future date with Jira automation. The date is x-hours from a given timestamp, where x is a number of hours provided by the Issue.

To calculate the future date, I tried:

{{now.plusHours({{hours}})}}

and

{{now.plusHours(hours)}}

because I wasn't 100% certain about the correct syntax.

The first just returns nothing if I try to log the value, the latter just throws the error

Failed to get value for now.plusHours({{hours: {{now.plusHours({{hours}})}}

To isolate the Issue, I already tried to set hours to a fixed value (e.g. 300) with no success.

Also, I tried the aforementioned syntax directly with a fixed value

{{now.plusHours(300)}}  

which works just fine.

So I guess the core-question is: How to reference Smart-Values within Functions?

What am I missing? 

[Sherry Goyal · Accepted solution]

@Jakob Wendt  

You can use something like

{{now.plusHours(issue.hours | 1)}}

where 1 is default value if issue.hours does not exists. Hopefully this answers your query.

Cheers
Sherry 

[Jakob Wendt]

This worked, thanks so much for your answer!

[Florian]

Try the fully qualified field name so instead 

{{now.plusHours(hours)}}

use  

{{now.plusHours(issue.hours)}}

If this does not work try

{{now.plusHours(issue.customfield_xxxxx)}}

Where xxxxx is the field’s numerical ID.  

[Jakob Wendt]

Okay, that works kind of the way I would expect.

But what, If the value hours wasn't supplied directly by the user but instead created within the automation script?

[Florian]

When you modify field within an automaton script and want to refer to that value later within the same script you have to reload the issue. There is a workflow action called „refresh issue“ or something like that.