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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

How to send notifications to Slack

Slack is a popular workspace communications tool that allows users to chat in so-called channels or via direct messages with one another.

One of the actions we have available to our automation rules is the Send Slack message action, which gives us the ability to send messages to Slack channels or to an individual user.

In this section, we'll learn how we can integrate with Slack to send notifications from automation rules.

Integrating with Slack

Before we get to sending a Slack notification from an automation rule, we first need to set up an incoming webhook in Slack to be able to receive the messages from Jira.

There are two ways we can achieve this. The first is by creating a custom app in Slack and configuring it with an incoming webhook and then selecting the channel that will receive the notifications.

The second and simplest way to integrate Slack with automation rules is to create a legacy incoming webhook, which also...