How can I create an automation running every 5 years?

[Jurgen Gaeremyn]

Hi,

I'd like to have a Jira automation running once every 5 years. So setting up a scheduled trigger, I can do a crontab style request.

Following this page: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/construct-cron-expressions-for-a-filter-subscription/

This is where I tend to end up:

0 30 8 ? JAN MON#1 2020/5

I would like to be sure that this will work.

[Clark Everson · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jurgen Gaeremyn 

Welcome to the community!

CRON expressions definitely work I have tested them a lot. Looking at your expression yes that will work!

You can verify them on a site like this: https://crontab.cronhub.io/

Hope this helps!

Clark

[Darryl Lee]

5 years! You are optimistic about Atlassian products. ;-}

[Jurgen Gaeremyn]

well... if not of Atlassian, then at least of the portability of it...

[Darryl Lee]

I'm confident that data will be portable. Less so about automations. But at least the rules can be exported (as JSON).

Whether any other platform would know what to do with that JSON is... doubtful.

That said, the JSON is actually human-readable, so it would at least give you a starting point if you had to recreate automations with some other tool:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/import-and-export-automation-rules/