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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 requests to external systems

The ability to send requests to external systems from your automation rules opens up a whole new realm of extremely powerful possibilities. This functionality can be used to send notifications, or issue data or any custom data to any application or system that accepts web requests over HTTP or HTTPS. For example, you could use this functionality to kick off a build process in a build tool such as Bamboo or Jenkins, or to initiate a password change in a centralized user directory system if it supports this.

In this section, we will look at the Send web request component and how to use it in automation rules to send requests to external systems. We'll begin by taking a look at the various configuration options available in the action.

In the following screenshot, we can see the configuration options for the Send web request action:

Figure 5.1 – Configuring the Send web request action

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