Summary Recently, I encountered a requirement to automate Jira work item(s) based on the page status value of a linked Confluence page. While Confluence automation offers an action to address Jira ...
Hi Community! Mehak from Automation Platform here with an exciting announcement on a new action component. We have launched an upgraded ‘Publish new page in Confluence' action in Jira...
Hello Community 👋 Scott from the Automation Platform here. I am thrilled to announce that we are raising the limits for the role and user fields in Automation user conditions. W...
Hello Automation Community 👋 I'm cross-posting this new feature from the Jira Community as Automation powers the new capability and will be of interest to you all, both in terms of how ...
Hello all! It's me again with another use case I've had for a few customers now. The requirement is that the customer has a deadline, usually for a workflow transition, and they want to under...
Recently, I encountered a requirement to automate tasks based on field data from advanced forms in Jira without relying on the "Forms submitted" trigger. While Atlassian provides documentation on acc...
This article discusses how to effectively access and manipulate JSON data using smart values and JSON functions in Atlassian Automation Cloud. Whether you are working with data from an "Incoming webh...
Over the next few weeks, we'll be rolling out a new Atlassian Automation enhancement across all products and editions, designed to increase the reliability of your rules. Automatio...
...ontaining numbers is the obvious one: isNumeric(). But it only returns true for whole numbers, and not for negative or floating-point values. {{varPaddingSize.isNumeric}} None of the other text f...
OK! So... yesterday I published a user's guide to my Page Approvals implementation. But let's get into the fun stuff. What's under the hood? Smart Buttons Smart Buttons are a...
Last year, @Jonathan Smith wrote an article on how to use Automation and Page Statuses to create a simple page approval process. It's straightforward, and elegant. So of course, I had t...
Did you know the average worker wastes 19 working days per year on tasks that could be automated? Luckily, that’s where Atlassian Automation comes in. By automating m...
Update May 30, 2025 In January 2025, we shared that all automation rules using an incoming webhook trigger will begin to be routed through a more secure endpoint. As of May 30, 2025, the legacy inc...
Hey community, I have seen a few questions / posts on this topic and so I thought I would write an article summarising a few customer use cases I have had recently where I used lookup tables ...
Estimated time to read: 7 minutes TL; DR: Jira Automation rules help teams save time, automate repeatable tasks, reduce manual errors, and close some gaps in Jira features. Effective...
This article helps build a solution using Jira Automation and Confluence REST API to link a newly created Confluence page with a Jira issue. For instance, When a confluence page is created using Jir...
...| { "cloud":true, "rules": [.rules[] | select(.name | contains("CloneRoute"))] }' automation-rules-202412121711.json > cloneroutes.json And from there, I opened in the cloneroutes.json file in a...
...extBlock", "weight": "Bolder", "text": "@{body('Parse_JSON')['sections'][0]['activityTitle']}", "wrap": true...
Estimated time to read: 10 minutes TL;DR: Many issues and their fields are lists of things. Sometimes we need to find specific items within a list. Knowing ways to find them saves rule-wri...
Mistake 20 One day I was building a Jira Cloud automation rule to show an example of using smart values in one of my Jira courses. The purpose of the rule was to send an email to an external user w...
Update 26 August, 2024 We’ve just shipped an update to the ‘Send Microsoft Teams message’ action in Automation. The action now uses Workflows in Microsoft Teams to send messages from your automatio...
My colleague asked me about this article: Mention someone directly in Slack via Jira Automation Wherein @Daniel Eads provides a Python script to connect to the Slack API and f...
👋 Hi Community! Sophia from Automation platform here with 4 new improvements: Improved Scheduled Trigger: It is now easier than ever to schedule your triggers, with new start date, end date, a...
We are thrilled to announce the arrival of the first set of component-level security controls for Jira and Confluence Automation. Available to Enterprise Edition customers, component control...
The Automation Incoming webhook trigger allows an automation rule to be triggered via a POST request. While the URL is unique, there are no additional authentication methods that are supported o...