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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Set the Due date field to {{now.withDayOfMonth(15)}} and click Save."

A block of code is set as follows:

{
    "summary": "some summary text",
    "bugDescription": "some descriptive text",
    "softwareVersion": "version string"
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

{
    "type": "page",
    "title": "Version {{version.name.jsonEncode}}",
    "space": {

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$displayName = "Service Desk Autobot"; $objectId = (Get-AzureADServicePrincipal -SearchString $displayName).ObjectId
$roleName = "Company Administrator"; $role = Get-AzureADDirectoryRole | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -eq $roleName}

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select New action and then Send email and complete the fields as follows before clicking Save."

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