How to PRIVATELY turn slack messages into Jira tasks

Howard Hunt

I use the Jira Cloud > Slack integration to turn slack messages into Tasks within my DM's/channels.

However I often convert thread messages into my Private Project Tasks and I don't want everyone to see/be notified in the thread, every time I do this.

I know I can delete the Jira notification message after it appears in the thread, but is there a way to add messages to Jira privately, without clogging up everyone's channels with my personal task creation notifications?

And yes, I know I could jump over to my jirabot channel to do it, but that requires leaving my active thread, typing the slack command and copy pasting every message which defeats the purpose of being convenient

Thank

Daniel Eads

Hi @Howard Hunt , welcome to the Community!

Thanks for describing your workflow with creating Jira issues from Slack. I can see how you'd prefer to have the confirmation messages be ephemeral (visible only to you) or have the ability to turn them off. Currently the official Jira Cloud for Slack app which comes bundled with Jira and I can see you're using from your screenshot does not have this capability. Deleting the messages after they pop into the thread is the current method to remove the notifications.

We don't have a feature request to add this capability to the app, and given that I believe that this is the first time someone has asked, it seems unlikely that this would be prioritized for development. Tagging Atlassian product manager @David Michelson here for insight.

There are some third-party apps on the Atlassian Marketplace that might have this capability - I quickly flipped through a few and didn't find mention of this on their marketplace listings, but it's possible one or more apps may have it as a configurable option listed in their documentation.

Cheers,
Daniel | Atlassian Support