JQL and two weeks

[rodney e]

Hi all,

I got a request to auto assign issues to two groups of employees in weekly intervals.

Grp X assigned issues the first week.

Grp Y assigned issues the second week.

Grp X assigned issues the third week.

...

Does JQL have that capability?

Thank you!

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

The short answer is no, Jira does not support weekly assignments. You could do it if the schedule for the different groups are kept outside of Jira, you could then use a webhook request to figure out who should be the assignee, for example you could get it from the on-call schedule in Opsgenie.

[Jack Brickey]

Too, issues are assigned to individuals not groups. There are methods, e.g. the use of Teams or a custom field, to associate issues to groups.

[rodney e]

@Mikael Sandberg @Alex Koxaras _Relational_ @Jack Brickey 

Thank you for the explanations! I'll suggest some alternatives.

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

Hi @rodney e 

JQL yields issue results and can't do anything else with it. My best guess would be to go with Jira Automation and create a rule assigning the issues to user groups. These groups will have to be created by you and each must have the corresponding users of (e.g.) X and Y. Then with conditional execution about the 1st, 2nd etc weeks assign each newly created issue to a user of that group.