Is there a way to count the number of times a due date is changed?

[Andrew W Matthews]

Client requirement is that they need a count of date changed in a particular date field,

is there a way to do it or is there any workaround for it? 

[Darryl Lee · Accepted solution]

{edited to fix typo}

Ohai @Andrew W Matthews --

Oof, I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of a report about "Hey, the due date on this changed X times. What is the deal here?"

That being said, sure - you could create a numeric custom field called "Due Date Tattletale".

You'd need to set the Default Value to 0, and you probably want to make it "read-only" by only showing it on View screens.

You could then create an Automation that is triggered whenever the Due Date field value changes.

You would then Edit the issue fields and have "Due Date Tattletale" set to 

{{#=}}{{issue.Due Date Tattletale}} + 1{{/}}

But I kind of feel like asking: Why are they tracking # of Due Date changes? What do they hope to gain from this kind of monitoring.

But that's just me. :-}

[Andrew W Matthews]

I know but still thank you I'll try this

[John Funk]

Loving your custom field name @Darryl Lee  :-)