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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

Working with branch rules and related issues

It is not often that issues exist in isolation. In fact, in many cases, there are always other issues that relate to any given issue. This could be in the form of sub-tasks, stories linked to a larger epic, or issues linked to other issues using relationships such as blocked, duplicated, and more.

You will therefore often come across situations when creating automation rules where you need to perform actions against not only the issue that triggered the rule, but also against issues related to the source issue.

This is where the Branch rule component and its companion condition, the Related issues condition, prove most useful, allowing you to create rules that can work across complex issue relationships.

Branch rule/related issues

When we use the Branch rule component to perform actions against a related issue or list of issues, the rule no longer executes in a linear fashion, instead expanding into multiple sub-branches representing...