I want to add a button that generates a new issue from the issue view?

[Scott Federman]

Hey all, 

I have a customer who needs to have things very much in their face to be able to use Jira. One of those things they deal with are approvals. These approvals are created using approval type sub-tasks. Right now, i have a selection under the automation menu that will generate these sub tasks based on a manual trigger.  The concept seems to work but they never remember to look under the automation lightning bolt to find the create approval button. Has anybody added a button to the view screen? Can somebody help me out with a way to add a button to the view screen that would kick off this automation?

[John Funk]

Hi Scott,

What if you created a custom field with just a checkbox or a Yes/No radio button or such. Then change your automation rule to fire with the field value is changed. Then add the field to the screen of course and suggest each person pin the field to the top of the screen for visibility. 

Then you can even add a Validator to the transition to make sure the field is changed before they can move on. 

[Scott Federman]

the problem here is that i potentially need to have multiple approvals created. It may be one approval required. It may be 10. A check box would only allow for one at a time. With the dropdown they can currently select the option as many times as needed and prompt the fields needed. 

[arielei]

Hello @Scott Federman 

There arent any good apps that can add buttons.

What about using the workflow transitions? for example, create the workflow in the manner that would suite their needs, and once they need it, they will press the transition and it will kick start the automation.

let me know what you think.

Ariel.

[Scott Federman]

formally that would have been the easy way. But now that atlassian got rid of the buttons and put them as a dropdown, its the same issue as the automation button. I know it can be done using forge. I unfortunately don't know how to use forge or develop for that matter lol.