Learn Automation in Jira with real-world examples

Let's take a look at what an automation rule is composed of and get some background on the tool

Understand the allowances and permissions around automation for jira

We're going to create a project with sample data, see how we can access the automation tool, create our first rule and then observe and look at the rule details.

We will use the "field value changed" trigger and set up a rule to send notifications based on the priority of a newly created issue.

We will look at the auto-assign action and all the different options available with this action

Learn how to test smart value output using the audit log. This audit log is actually useful to do testing on any automation rule.

We will take a look at the Manual Trigger and use it to auto-generate issues through a one-click step

Our first look at the ability to create branch rules inside an automation rule. This feature can come in handy on many occasions.

Learn how to auto-generate issues, or do other functions on a scheduled basis and never require that manual step to do recurring tasks.

Take a look at a valuable action available to do logic on the latest state of an issue, even if that issue was updated in the automation rule itself. It allows us to see an issue in it's latest state, while in the middle of a rule execution.

We will take a look at an easy way to capture smart value names to use in your automation rules, and see what data is available.

A more advanced rule to notify on priority upgrades, rather than a pre-defined value of Priority. It will utilize a smart value function and notify whenever a priority is upgraded.

We will see how you can keep a count of how many times an issue goes to a particular status. More specifically, we will see how many times an issue needs dev re-work (goes from QA back to Dev)

See how you can use the Lookup Issues action to post a daily list of filter results to Slack.

Kick bulk updating issues up a notch by implementing smart logic on the update. In this example, we will see how we can bulk update a custom field (QA time) by setting it to 10% of the total time logged on the issue.

We will see how we can have automation around linking issues. In this example, when a blocking issue is completed, we will post a comment in the issue it was blocking. We will also see how data can be copied from the blocking issue into the blocked issue.