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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 receive requests using incoming webhooks

In the previous two sections, we learned how to use automation rules to send notifications and data to external systems and how to work with the response data received from an external system.

In addition to this, automation rules also allow us to receive notifications and data from external systems using the Incoming webhook trigger. This component will create a unique URL for each trigger that can then be called by an external system and will trigger the automation rule to run. These incoming webhooks can receive a list of issues on which to act as well as custom data in the form of JSON objects, which can be used in later rule components to make decisions using conditions or to create or update issues using the custom data provided.

The following screenshot shows the configuration options for the Incoming webhook trigger:

Figure 5.7 – Configuring the Incoming webhook trigger

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