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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

Scheduling tasks

One of the first things people think about when you mention automation is the ability to create issues on a scheduled basis, and with automation in Jira, this is a relatively straightforward task to achieve. In conjunction with the rest of the components we have already discussed, this gives you great flexibility in terms of what you can achieve.

In this section, we will look at how you can use the Scheduled trigger to perform a variety of tasks that need to be performed at defined intervals.

Scheduled trigger

The Scheduled trigger allows us to run rules at specified intervals. We can use either a fixed rate interval in our rule, or we can use a cron expression to create a more complex schedule.

Fixed rate intervals are pretty straightforward; you specify how often the rule should trigger in minutes, hours, or days, and the automation engine will initiate execution of the rule based on the interval.

Important note

When you use a fixed rate interval...