Let's automate project creation using Jira Automation!

[Kristóf Lauber]

Thats clear, but what am I doing wrong, the URL seems ok to me, and everything else as well, I'm attaching the POST call

[Gerben Heinen]

There is not enough info here to answer your question, do you have screenshots that show more, e.g. the url and where your smart value is used in the url?

[Kristóf Lauber]

I attached the GET req below, the full url is: 

https://XXXXXXX.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/projectvalidate/validProjectKey?key={{issue.summary.split(" ").left(1).toUpperCase().replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9]","").join("").left(10)}}

[Gerben Heinen]

Use a smart value calculate as a separate action and put the outcome in the url, the smart value in the url is not processed at all.

[Kristóf Lauber]

How would you go by doing it? If you could give me an example that would be great.

[Alexander Ziegltrum]

@Kristóf Lauber at one point I had similar issues, as far as I recall. Maybe my approach could be an alterniative for you. I solved this problem using Jira Forms and configured the field for the project key as this:

This is a much more convenient solution, at least for our use case.

Hope it helps.

[Kristóf Lauber]

Thank you @Alexander Ziegltrum for the recommendation, it sounds good, could you please share more info/screenshots about it? whats the purpose of the linkedfield?

[Alexander Ziegltrum]

@Kristóf Lauber First, you would need to design the request for "project creation automation" in Forms.

Second you add any field you need for your automation. The mentionened form field stores the wanted project key from the user and forwards it to the customfield "JiraProjectKey" that needs to be created beforehand.

In the automation you can work with the content of this field in the smartvalue, when you do the web request for validating the key with smartvalue:

And for creating the project:

[Gerben Heinen]

You can use the create variable field to construct your key and use that in the API, see screenshot below.

I might not work with what you're doing, because you paste the entire smartvalue operation in the URL. 

[Kristóf Lauber]

Thank you both for the help, I was able to do it!

[Aron Kuch]

Absolutely brilliant! Exactly what I needed. Thank you!

[Diogo Teles]

@Piotr Zadrożny _Eyzee_  What a brilliant article. Thank you so much! The use case alone is great, but the clear way you explain the power of automation+Reat API just takes it to a whole new level. Great work!

[Matvei Makeev]

@Piotr Zadrożny _Eyzee_ , thank you so much for such a beautiful solution! You mentioned automatic creation of boards at the end of the article. How would you do that? I haven't found that functionality in API. 

[Piotr Zadrożny _Eyzee_]

@Matvei Makeev You can create filter using this endpoint:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v2/api-group-filters/#api-rest-api-2-filter-post

and than create board using this filter using endpoint:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/software/rest/api-group-board/#api-rest-agile-1-0-board-post

You can also create a new project with an already associated board by providing:

• projectTypeKey: software,
• projectTemplateKey either com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira:gh-kanban-template or com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira:gh-scrum-template

[Aron Kuch]

The final piece!
Thank you @Piotr Zadrożny _Eyzee_! I got it working and this will make it so much more adopted by the end-users since the project is complete.
I'm curious that you used API 2 for creating the filter; why not API 3? (https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-filters/#api-rest-api-3-filter-post)

[Thays Carvalho]

Thanks for the post.

Here for me the creation of the software project worked, but it didn't create the board.
Automation doesn't create the board, I know there must be some extra steps to do but I can't find help.
Has anyone ever had this "problem"?

[Jason Thompson]

This seems like a really cool way to use Automation, but I suppose at the moment, this is only available in the Cloud version?

My company uses Data Center...

I have not found the comparable actions in the DC version, do you know if this functionality is comming to Automation for DC (as someone who has to setup lots of Jira Projects & Confluence areas...)

Thanks.

[Rishabh Kumar Shukla]

Hey Everyone,

Does this solution share/add custom field context for the custom field as well?

[Mariana Zimmermann]

Hello everyone,

this might be an old thread, but it is still the most useful one on automatic project creation. Thank you guys for all the input.

I struggle to find the endpoint to turn on/off features (e.g. timeline) when doing this. That is my json for project creation

{
"assigneeType": "{{lookupObjects.assigneeType}}",
"categoryId": {{lookupObjects.categoryId}},
"description": "MPM - {{issue.summary}}",
"key": "{{webResponse.body}}",
"leadAccountId": "{{issue.SWHL Projektmanager:In}}",
"name": "{{issue.SWHL Projektname}}",
"notificationScheme": "{{lookupObjects.notificationScheme}}",
"permissionScheme": "{{lookupObjects.permissionScheme}}",
"projectTypeKey": "{{lookupObjects.projectTypeKey}}",
"workflowScheme": "{{lookupObjects.workflowScheme}}",
"issueTypeScreenScheme": "{{lookupObjects.issueTypeScreenScheme}}",
"issueTypeScheme": "{{lookupObjects.issueTypeScheme}}"
}

And when i try to add "projectTemplateKey": "{{lookupObjects.projectTemplateKey}}", it doesnt work because i shall not use workflowschemes etc. in combination with projectTemplateKey. My projectTypeKey is "software" and for some reason i dont have the opportunity to turn on roadmap/timeline feature even in the GUI. Is there a way to a) do this in the GUI? and b) does anyone know the correct endpoint to turn on/off these Features?

Best regards

Edit: ok. found that it wont allow me to toggle on a board. The AI told me to either use projectTemplateKey and the call all the API endpoints to set workflow scheme, notification scheme, etc. or keep my project creation and the create a filter and a board seperately. Seems best way is to use the projectTemplateKey then, but is there a way to overwrite the workflow, notif. perm. schemes of a project with a single api endpoint similar to "create a project"?