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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 to enhance the functionality of automation rules by using smart values and smart value functions.

We learned which smart values are set by the various triggers and how you can access their attributes or fields. In addition, you learned about smart value functions and how they can be used in isolation against a particular field or chained together to perform multiple operations on data in a single step.

Finally, we learned about the various smart value functions available for dates, text, lists, and numerical values and how these can be used to format and manipulate data to create extremely powerful and flexible rules.

Smart values and their associated functions can be used in nearly every field in automation rule conditions and actions, and we'll learn throughout the rest of this book how they will help us to create much more powerful and richer rules as a result of their use.

In the next chapter, we will be looking at...