Projects >> Customising existing/Creating a "workflow" within a project to manage how an issue's fields are populated based on its state?

[mitchezugwu]

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Q: I would like to be able to customise/create a workflow within GitHub project, so to manage how an issue's fields are populated based on its change in state as it traverses from Cradle to Grave.

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Example: I have an issue ticket on my project board that

• (i) When it is moved from state "To do" to "In Progress" I would like a date field I have named "Date Work Started" to be automatically updated with the day's date

then....

• (ii) When the same issue is moved to state "Done" I would like another date field I have named "Date Work Ended" to be automatically updated with the "day's date" and another numeric field I have created titled "% Completed" to be automatically updated with "100"

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[2023Yash]

use Gemini

[mitchezugwu]

@2023Yash, thank you for your response.

Apologies as I am new to the GitHub community, when you say "use Gemini", do you or someone within the Github community have an actual example of what can be done to achieve the same/similar action within the Github project workflow, providing a step by step guide?

(Note: I have already asked via ChatGPT/CoPilot/Gemini but they all seem to point me to gitHub actions workflow, note I am not a coder. Is this the only way I can enact the change?)

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