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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned how you can integrate to external systems using automation rules by sending web requests and how you can include custom data in these requests using smart values and smart value functions.

We have also learned how to ensure we can receive a response from a request to an external system and how we can extract the data for use in subsequent rule components.

Next, we learned to set up an incoming webhook using automation rules to listen for requests coming from external systems and how to optionally process data sent in the request body and use this in subsequent rule components.

As we have seen in this chapter, the ability to integrate with external systems using automation rules opens a world of possibilities to your Jira projects. For example, you could start a software build or deployment from your build tool when you release a version or complete a sprint in Jira Software. In Service Management, you could integrate with your user...