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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
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Section 2: Beyond the Basics
8
Section 3: Advanced Use Cases with Automation

Technical requirements

The requirements for this chapter are as follows:

  • Jira Cloud environment: If you don't already have access to Jira, you can create a free Jira Cloud account at https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/free and ensure that you have both Jira Software and Jira Service Management selected; or
  • Jira Server environment: If you are using Jira Server (available from https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download), ensure that you have licenses for both Jira Software and Jira Service Management. In addition, you will also need to ensure that you install the Automation for Jira app, available from the Atlassian Marketplace.

In both instances, you will need to have at least project administrator access to a Service Management project and a Scrum Software project in order to be able to follow the examples in this chapter. For the examples in this chapter, we have used the IT Service Management project template to create the Service Management project...