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Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

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 3: Enhancing Rules with Smart Values

The visual rule editor, which we explored in Chapter 1, Key Concepts of Automation, makes the creation of complex automation rules really easy and requires no knowledge of the Jira API or any specialist scripting knowledge in order to get started.

While this approach will work for a large number of use cases, there will always be cases where you will need direct access to issue data and the ability to perform more complex functions against this data. This is where smart values come to the rescue.

This chapter will introduce you to smart values. You will learn how to find smart values, how smart functions work, and how you can introduce your own smart values into automation rules. You will also get an overview of how to manipulate dates, lists of data, text values, and how to perform numeric calculations using math expressions.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

Understanding smart values
Using smart...

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Authors (1)

Cantrell

Cantrell

Gareth Cantrell is currently working at Square Enix as a ITSM Solution Architect. He has a software engineering background, having spent at least 15 years of his 25-year career developing various software solutions for clients. For the past 10 years, Gareth has been involved in designing, implementing, and integrating solutions with Jira and other Atlassian tools, most of which involve automation to varying degrees. He has worked on projects including end-to-end ITSM solutions with Jira/Slack and other third-party tools, Agile and DevOps implementations in Jira, and integrations with various CI/CD tools.

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