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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned how we can use automation rules to work with issues in Jira. We have explored rule conditions in more detail and how you can use these to accurately target issues in your rules.

Next, we introduced branch rules and learned how to author rules that target not only the issue that triggered a rule, but also its related issues, and then we introduced the most common actions involved in making changes to your issues.

We then learned how to use the advanced field editor for those situations where the standard rule actions are not sufficient and also learned how to transition issues through their workflows automatically.

Finally, we looked at how to use the scheduling capability of rules to perform tasks on a regular basis using both fixed rate scheduling and cron expressions for finer control over our schedules.

These skills form the basis of working with issues in automation rules and we'll be using all of them throughout the rest...