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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

Editing issue fields

In the majority of your automation rules, you will be editing information in issues. In this section, we are going to cover some of the more common actions you will need to understand when creating your rules, including assignments, commenting on issues, linking issues to other issues and, of course, editing fields within issues.

Assigning issues

One of the more tedious tasks usually encountered in Jira is having team members track a queue of unassigned issues and take ownership of these issues. The other common approach is to have someone such as a team lead go through these issues and apportion them off to members of the team based on certain criteria.

We can instead use automation to handle these tasks for us, and the following list is a few of the capabilities we have at our disposal when it comes to assigning issues:

  • Assigning based on current workload
  • Assigning in a round-robin fashion
  • Assigning to a previous assignee or commenter...