Need to auto fill Planned Start date of Change request which automatically creating from Schedule

Arjun Reddy Yer · ‎02-03-2026

required help @Ankur Bawiskar @SumanthDosapati @Vasantharajan N @Mohammed8

With this script Change Request is getting created and Change Task also getting created and auto assigned to group.

As I need to auto fill the Planned Start date field with the 2nd Thursday of the month.

As the Schedule Job is running on every month 1st day.

Schedule Job:

    var templateName = 'Monthly PMPC Patching'; // Replace with your template name
    var change = new GlideRecord('change_request');
    change.initialize();
    change.std_change_producer_version = gs.getProperty('SJRM02022026_std_change_producer_version_pmpc'); // Standard Change Templates version
    change.applyTemplate('Monthly PMPC Patching');

    // Insert the change request

    change.chg_model = gs.getProperty('SJRM02022026_chg_model'); // Change model is standard
    change.assignment_group = gs.getProperty('SJRM02022026_chg_assignment_group'); //Assignment Group: Change Management
    var changeSysId = change.insert();
    gs.info('Standard change request created: ' + changeSysId);

    // Change Task Creation

    var rec = new GlideRecord('change_task');
    rec.initialize();
    rec.change_request = changeSysId;
    rec.short_description = 'Merchandising Quality Engineering Testing';
    rec.description = 'Confirm business application functions as it should with new Microsoft patches installed.';
    rec.assignment_group.setDisplayValue('Merchandising Quality Engineering');
    rec.insert();

Arjun Reddy Yer · ‎02-03-2026

It's working with below script thanks for sharing the script

 var templateName = 'Monthly Microsoft Patching'; // Replace with your template name

 // --- Compute 2nd Thursday of this month (instance/user local time) ---
 function two(n) {
     return (n < 10 ? '0' : '') + n;
 }
 var now = new GlideDateTime();
 var year = now.getYearLocalTime(); // e.g., 2026
 var month = now.getMonthLocalTime() + 1; // 1..12 (getMonthLocalTime is 0-based)

 // Set to the first day of the month at 00:00

 var firstOfMonth = new GlideDateTime();
 firstOfMonth.setDisplayValue(year + '-' + two(month) + '-01 00:00:00');

 // Day of week: 0=Sun, 1=Mon, 2=Tue, 3=Wed, 4=Thu, 5=Fri, 6=Sat

 var dow = firstOfMonth.getDayOfWeekLocalTime();
 var THURSDAY = 4;

 // Days to add to reach the first Thursday of the month

 var toFirstThursday = (THURSDAY - dow + 7) % 7;
 var firstThursday = new GlideDateTime(firstOfMonth);
 firstThursday.addDaysLocalTime(toFirstThursday);
 var secondThursday = new GlideDateTime(firstThursday);
 secondThursday.addDaysLocalTime(7);

 var dateOnly = secondThursday.getLocalDate().getValue(); // yyyy-MM-dd
 var change = new GlideRecord('change_request');
 change.initialize();
 change.std_change_producer_version = gs.getProperty('SJRM02022026_std_change_producer_version'); // Standard Change Templates version
 change.applyTemplate('Monthly Microsoft Patching');

 // Insert the change request

 change.chg_model = gs.getProperty('SJRM02022026_chg_model'); // Change model is standard
 change.assignment_group = gs.getProperty('SJRM02022026_chg_assignment_group'); //Assignment Group: Change Management

 // Set Planned Start to the computed 2nd Thursday (UTC value is stored)

 change.setValue('start_date', secondThursday.getValue());

 var changeSysId = change.insert();
 gs.info('Standard change request created: ' + changeSysId + ' | Planned start (2nd Thu): ' + secondThursday.getDisplayValue());

 //Change Task Creation

 var rec = new GlideRecord('change_task');

 rec.initialize();

 rec.change_request = changeSysId;

 rec.short_description = 'Merchandising Quality Engineering Testing';

 rec.description = 'Confirm business application functions as it should with new Microsoft patches installed.';

 rec.assignment_group.setDisplayValue('Merchandising Quality Engineering');

 rec.insert();

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AshishKM · ‎02-03-2026

Hi @Arjun Reddy Yer ,

Logically we need to find the first Thursday of the month and then add "7" to get the second one using addDaysUTC(7) method.

-Thanks,

AshishKM

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Ankur Bawiskar · ‎02-03-2026

@Arjun Reddy Yer

so what's not working and where are you stuck?

Regards,
Ankur
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