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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

Working with data returned from requests

Many systems you will integrate with not only accept data you send, but also respond with additional data depending on the request. With automation rules, we are able to retrieve the response from a request and utilize this data in subsequent conditions and actions in our rules. This ability gives our rules even greater flexibility and power as we can now make decisions and perform actions based on the specific content returned from the external system.

When configuring the Send web request action, checking the Wait for response checkbox will cause the action to wait for a response after sending the initial data to the external system, after which it will populate the smart value, {{webhookResponse}}, with the response from the external system.

The {{webhookResponse}} smart value contains a number of fields that you can access in your subsequent rule components, and these are as follows:

  • {{webhookResponse.status}}: The status field...