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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

Organizing your rules

Over time, as you automate more and more tasks in more and more of your projects, it is going to become more complex to manage and keep track of all your automation rules.

The best way to deal with an ever-increasing number of automation rules, and configurations in general, is to logically organize each rule.

In this section, we'll look at some best practices to keep your rules optimally organized, which will make them easier to find and manage.

We'll start by looking at what should be a familiar concept to anyone who has had to deal with maintaining large numbers of system configurations: naming conventions.

Using naming conventions

Using a well-defined naming convention allows users to consistently identify rules and allows you to organize your rules in a meaningful way.

A good naming convention needs to be planned in advance, documented, and made visible to everyone who is going to be managing automation rules.

The list of automation...