You're reading from Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira A practical, no-code approach for Jira admins and power users to automate everyday processes

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562868

Length 314 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

JIRA

Concepts

Power Users

Author (1):

Gareth Cantrell

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started – the Basics

2. Chapter 1: Key Concepts of Automation FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Automating Jira Issues

4. Section 2: Beyond the Basics

5. Chapter 3: Enhancing Rules with Smart Values

6. Chapter 4: Sending Automated Notifications

7. Chapter 5: Working with External Systems

8. Section 3: Advanced Use Cases with Automation

9. Chapter 6: Automating Jira Service Management

10. Chapter 7: Automating Jira Software Projects

11. Chapter 8: Integrating with DevOps Tools

12. Chapter 9: Best Practices

13. Chapter 10: Troubleshooting Tips and Techniques

14. Chapter 11: Beyond Automation; an Introduction to Scripting

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Chapter 11: Beyond Automation; an Introduction to Scripting

In this book, we have focused on automating everyday tasks in Jira using a code-free approach. This automation functionality is native to Jira Cloud and is available in Jira Server and Jira Data Center with the addition of the Automation for Jira app.

This approach makes it very easy for Jira administrators to get up and running with automation quickly as they require no specialist coding knowledge. In addition, the ability to create automations can be delegated to project administrators, thereby allowing Jira administrators to focus on other tasks.

However, any book on automation in Jira would not be complete if it did not mention scripting and, in particular, ScriptRunner for Jira, which is arguably the most well-known automation app available.

In this chapter, we'll provide a brief introduction to ScriptRunner for Jira and to the Groovy scripting language, which ScriptRunner uses under the hood. In addition...