Is there an automatic way to add a Jira Burndown chart to slack?

Question

At the moment, I do this manually but was wondering if there was a way to do this where I could set up a slack reminder that would post the burndown chart every few days.

Thanks for the help.

Earl McCutcheon · Answer

Hello @Sundar ,

Please make sure to review the partner guidelines here, to review the requirements to post to the community as an application vendor, as well as making sure to update your account accordingly to identify yourself as a vendor of the app that you are recommending.

Regards,
Earl

Sundar_5u1mii · Answer

This Slack integration for Jira app can schedule your Jira Burndown charts to deliver to your team channel in Slack.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221651/slack-integration-for-jira

Works with Jira Server/Cloud/DataCenter and on both Jira Software and ServiceDesk projects. Also works with many other Jira project reports.

Daniel Eads · Answer

Hi Sha, welcome to the Community!

The first consideration is that the burndown chart is rendered in the browser rather than being served up as an image by Jira. Would I be right in assuming you're taking a screenshot of it if you're posting an image to Slack?

In order to have something post without any effort on your end, it would be the most straightforward to put a message with just a link to the burndown chart to remind people to view it. You can copy the link from the Burndown Chart link in the sidebar (getting it from the URL bar will include a parameter for a specific sprint, and you don't want that for this).

Then in Slack, you can use the /remind command to have Slackbot send a message to the channel at the time you specify. As an example:

/remind #awesome-team "Good morning! Take a quick peek at the burndown chart to see how we're doing. Thanks! https://yoursite.atlassian.net/burndownlink" every Tuesday

Or extending that with some message formatting, you can get fancy (swapping in your own link of course):

/remind #awesome-team “Good morning! <https://yoursite.atlassian.net/burndownlink|*Take a quick peek at the burndown chart to see how we’re doing.*> Thanks! https://media.giphy.com/media/3orieVe5VYqTdT16qk/giphy.gif” every Tuesday

Hope this helps!

Daniel