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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)
1
Section 1: Getting Started – the Basics
4
Section 2: Beyond the Basics
8
Section 3: Advanced Use Cases with Automation

Using smart value text functions

In a similar fashion to working with dates and times, smart value functions that deal with text strings allow us to manipulate any text field type, including the sub-attributes of fields where they are also text-type fields.

In this section, we will look at how smart value functions for text allow us to manipulate text, encode it for use in HTML, JSON, XML, or URLs, and how we can use functions to test for specific characteristics within blocks of text.

Let's take a look at the functions available to manipulate text in automation rules. The first set of functions we'll look at deal with text comparisons and return either true or false depending on whether the check passes or fails:

  • startsWith(string)/endsWith(string): Checks whether the text field starts or ends with the given string, respectively
  • equals(string)/equalsIgnoreCase(string): Checks whether the text field equals the given string exactly or ignoring capitalization...