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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, we have introduced ScriptRunner for Jira, an app that allows us to create advanced automations within Jira using scripting.

We have learned about the Groovy language, which ScriptRunner uses to enable scripting within Jira, and how Groovy can execute both Java and Groovy statements, which makes it easier to get started without needing to learn Groovy up front.

To understand how scripts interact with Jira Cloud, we learned about the Atlassian Connect framework, which is used to build apps for Jira Cloud, and how this enables ScriptRunner to provide scripted access to Jira.

We then learned how to create a scripted automation by recreating the incident priority matrix example from Chapter 2, Automating Jira Issues, and we learned how the interactions with Jira Cloud are performed by dissecting the script.

Next, we introduced you to scripting on Jira Server and learned how this differs from scripting for Jira Cloud by taking a very brief look at the...