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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562868
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gareth Cantrell Gareth Cantrell
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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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