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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Exploring scripting in Jira Server

Similar to ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud, ScriptRunner for Jira Server allows you to create automations in response to events within Jira.

Unlike in Jira Cloud, however, you are able to create automations against a much wider range of events in Jira Server due to the fact that you have access to the full Jira API.

In this section, we'll take a look at the API available to scripts on the Jira Server platform. We'll then take another look at the incident priority matrix example so that we can more easily understand the differences between scripting between the platforms.

Understanding the Jira Server API

In contrast to the Jira Cloud API, apps written using the Jira Server API run in the same Java process as the core Jira application and therefore have full access to the underlying application via the public Java-based API.

ScriptRunner for Jira Server is an app built using the Jira Plugins2 (P2) framework. This framework allows...