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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

Understanding smart values

Smart values allow you to access and manipulate almost all issue data in the context of an automation rule. In addition to allowing you to access the issue data, smart values also provide advanced functionality in the form of functions that allow you to perform complex operations on the issue data.

In this section, we'll explore what smart values are available to you and how to recognize and use them in rules. We will also introduce you to smart value functions and explain how you can create your own smart values for use in your rules.

Let's begin by taking a look at where we can find smart values and how to use them.

Finding and using smart values

Smart values are generally set in the rule context by the trigger that initiated execution of the rule. In addition, certain actions, such as the Send web request action, can also introduce smart values into the rule context.

Each of the smart values made available by these triggers are...