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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 about the key concepts of automation rules in Jira and the basic building blocks of rules, including triggers, conditions, and actions. We also covered rule types and the differences between rule owners and actors and finally, we saw how to combine all of these concepts into our first automation rule.

As you have learned in this chapter, we have a lot of powerful and flexible components at our disposal that will, in turn, help us to create powerful automation rules to automate everyday tasks in Jira without the need to write any code. In the following chapters, we will be exploring these components in more detail and with the help of practical examples that you can use to kick-start your own rules.

In the following chapter, we will learn how to use these components to work with issues in Jira. We'll explore all the conditions we introduced in this chapter, how to work with related issues, and how we can use some of the action components available to edit and transition issues before looking at how we can run rules on a scheduled basis.