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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

Chapter 3: Enhancing Rules with Smart Values

The visual rule editor, which we explored in Chapter 1, Key Concepts of Automation, makes the creation of complex automation rules really easy and requires no knowledge of the Jira API or any specialist scripting knowledge in order to get started.

While this approach will work for a large number of use cases, there will always be cases where you will need direct access to issue data and the ability to perform more complex functions against this data. This is where smart values come to the rescue.

This chapter will introduce you to smart values. You will learn how to find smart values, how smart functions work, and how you can introduce your own smart values into automation rules. You will also get an overview of how to manipulate dates, lists of data, text values, and how to perform numeric calculations using math expressions.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Understanding smart values
  • Using smart...