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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

Understanding conditions

Conditions give us the ability to make our rules much more powerful and flexible as they enable us to both narrow the scope of our rules and, in the case of if/else blocks, alter the control flow of the rule.

In this section, we will look at each of the conditions that we introduced in Chapter 1, Key Concepts of Automation, in more detail, exploring what each of them can do and how we can make use of them in automation rules.

Let's start by taking a look at the Issue fields condition.

The Issue fields condition

The Issue fields condition is the simplest of the conditions. It allows you to test most Jira fields against certain criteria without requiring the use of smart values or JQL (short for Jira Query Language).

You can use it to compare a field against a value or set of values, and it can also be used to test the field against another field in either the same issue or certain related issues, such as a parent issue, an epic issue, a destination...