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Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

By : Gareth Cantrell
Book Image

Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

By: Gareth Cantrell

Overview of this book

Atlassian Jira makes it easier to track the progress of your projects, but it can lead to repetitive and time-consuming tasks for teams. No-code automation will enable you to increase productivity by automating these tasks. Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira provides a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and productive in no time. You will start by learning how automation in Jira works, along with discovering best practices for writing automation rules. Then you’ll be introduced to the building blocks of automation, including triggers, conditions, and actions, before moving on to advanced rule-related techniques. After you’ve become familiar with the techniques, you’ll find out how to integrate with external tools, such as GitHub, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, all without writing a single line of code. Toward the end, you’ll also be able to employ advanced rules to create custom notifications and integrate with external systems. By the end of this Jira book, you’ll have gained a thorough understanding of automation rules and learned how to use them to automate everyday tasks in Jira without using any code.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started – the Basics
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Section 2: Beyond the Basics
8
Section 3: Advanced Use Cases with Automation

Chapter 11: Beyond Automation; an Introduction to Scripting

In this book, we have focused on automating everyday tasks in Jira using a code-free approach. This automation functionality is native to Jira Cloud and is available in Jira Server and Jira Data Center with the addition of the Automation for Jira app.

This approach makes it very easy for Jira administrators to get up and running with automation quickly as they require no specialist coding knowledge. In addition, the ability to create automations can be delegated to project administrators, thereby allowing Jira administrators to focus on other tasks.

However, any book on automation in Jira would not be complete if it did not mention scripting and, in particular, ScriptRunner for Jira, which is arguably the most well-known automation app available.

In this chapter, we'll provide a brief introduction to ScriptRunner for Jira and to the Groovy scripting language, which ScriptRunner uses under the hood. In addition...