Summary

In this chapter, you have learned how we can use automation rules to work with issues in Jira. We have explored rule conditions in more detail and how you can use these to accurately target issues in your rules.

Next, we introduced branch rules and learned how to author rules that target not only the issue that triggered a rule, but also its related issues, and then we introduced the most common actions involved in making changes to your issues.

We then learned how to use the advanced field editor for those situations where the standard rule actions are not sufficient and also learned how to transition issues through their workflows automatically.

Finally, we looked at how to use the scheduling capability of rules to perform tasks on a regular basis using both fixed rate scheduling and cron expressions for finer control over our schedules.

These skills form the basis of working with issues in automation rules and we'll be using all of them throughout the rest...