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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Introducing advanced automations with ScriptRunner

ScriptRunner for Jira allows you to extend the functionality of both Jira Cloud and Jira Server or Jira Data Center using scripts written in the Groovy language.

The ability to use the Groovy language in your automations gives you access to the underlying Java platform and the Jira API, as well as providing the full power of the scripting language itself.

As we'll see, in the case of Jira Cloud, access to the Jira API is limited to the interaction with the REST API provided by Jira. In Jira Server, however, your scripts gain access to the entire API that Jira exposes to developers.

We'll begin this section with a quick introduction to the Groovy language, which underpins ScriptRunner, followed by an overview of the ScriptRunner for Jira app.

Introducing Groovy

Groovy, or Apache Groovy to give it its full name, is a programming language built on the Java platform. It is both a static language, in that it can...