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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

How to send notifications to Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform from Microsoft and part of the Microsoft 365 offering. As with Slack, it allows teams to collaborate in channels or via direct messages with other individuals.

As we saw in the previous section, automation provides a Send Microsoft Teams message action that allows us to send messages to a Microsoft Teams channel.

In this section, we will learn how to integrate with Microsoft Teams to send notifications to channels using automation rules.

Integrating with Microsoft Teams

The first thing we need to do before we can use Microsoft Teams in automation rules is to set up an incoming webhook so that our rule can send messages to a channel in Teams.

In Microsoft Teams, we need to add the Incoming Webhook connector to our team before we can send messages to a channel from an automation rule.

Let's look at how we can configure a team and channel in Microsoft Teams using the Incoming...