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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 5: Working with External Systems

Applications rarely exist in isolation. They tend to specialize in doing one thing well, but to be truly useful, they need to co-exist with other applications within your organization.

This is especially true for Jira, and this can be seen in the Atlassian Marketplace where, among the large number of available apps, hundreds of them exist solely to integrate Jira with other applications and systems.

Even with the number of integrations with various applications available as plugins to Jira, there will often be occasions where the integration you need is not catered for, or where an existing integration does not quite meet your specific requirements.

In recent years, many applications and systems have embraced JSON-based REST APIs to enable third-party systems to integrate with them, and automation rules in Jira provide us with the components necessary to take advantage of this.

In this chapter, we will learn how we can send requests...