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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 in incoming webhooks

Having the ability to trigger actions in Jira from external systems enables you to create really powerful integrations with automation rules.

As we saw in the previous section, you can act on specific issues by including them in the incoming request body. However, with the Incoming webhook trigger, you can also consume any valid JSON object sent in the request body, and this data is made available to your subsequent rule components in the {{webhookData}} smart value, where you can access any of the JSON object fields using dot notation.

This powerful functionality will enable you to integrate with any external system that can send web requests and allow you to extract valuable data for use in your issues. For example, you could potentially set up your monitoring tools to send notifications to an automation rule when an incident occurs and use the data it provides to create a new incident and set affected components based on which asset caused...