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How can I automate this process

Monika Rani

I have a CSV file and I can create issues from this file using ACLI (runFromcsv) but right now I am manually typing the command in ACLI Client, I want to make it automatic like automatically this command runs on a specific time interval. How can I achieve this?

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Amelie Winkler _Appfire_

Hi @Monika Rani, Amelie from the CLI team here!

As you mentioned, on DC/Server, you can use RunCLI Actions in Jira, which isn't available on the cloud (yet!)

To run commands automatically, you could schedule your ACLI commands via a scheduling tool (for example, cron scheduler if you're operating on a Linux or Mac system or Windows scheduler if you're on Windows).

If you're in a more complex scenario/development environment and already have a Continuous Integration (CI) tool, Bitbucket pipelines or Bamboo for Atlassian might be better choices. The ACLI docker deliverables (Docker Images for ACLI) are designed to make it easy to use CI pipeline-like tools to incorporate ACLI into existing processes.

Hope this helps!

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Laurie Sciutti

Hi @Monika Rani ~ do you use this as well? Run CLI Actions in Jira

Monika Rani

@Laurie Sciutti no i didn't. I am new in automation so I don't have any idea just explored the ACLI only. How I will use it to automatic this can you please let me know.

I checked this app (Run CLI Actions in Jira) but it is not available for cloud.

Amelie Winkler _Appfire_

Hi @Monika Rani, Amelie from the CLI team here!

As you mentioned, on DC/Server, you can use RunCLI Actions in Jira, which isn't available on the cloud (yet!)

Hope this helps!

Monika Rani

@Amelie Winkler _Appfire_ I tried the Windows scheduler to run my command.txt file but when the scheduler runs my file, then how did my commands run inside the ACLI terminal and perform the actions?

Let me give you an idea of what I am trying to achieve here:

I want to create issues from my CSV and I am running this command :

--action runFromCsv --file Book1.csv --common "--action createIssue --continue "

and this is working perfectly for me in ACLI client.

Now, I put this command in the command.txt file and this file is under my ACLI installation directory. after that I create a task under my windows scheduler and run this task but nothing happened.

Can you please check my file?

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Monika Rani

@Amelie Winkler _Appfire_ one more question when I start my ACLI shell why does it ask me "ACLI shell.
? Enter secure properties password:"

I don't want this. How can I resolve this issue?

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Amelie Winkler _Appfire_

Hi @Monika Rani

Re/ question 1 on how to execute the command in the Windows scheduler.

Create a sample shell file with the below acli action in the acli installation directory.

acli jiracloud --action getProjectList --server https://xyz.atlassian.net --user xyz --token xyz

make that file executable using the command: chmod +x filename
test the shell by running it in the terminal.

As a next step:

Open the terminal and type crontab -e - this will open the crontab terminal
30 14 * * * /path/to/your_script.sh 0 - add this in the terminal and this script will run every day at 2:30 PM
Save and Exit
crontab -l with this command, you will be able to view your scheduled jobs.

(Please note above configurations are tested on a Mac and for other environments there will be some differences with configurations.)

Re/ question 2. Secure Properties are a feature of the ACLI to ensure a higher level of credential security. The use of Secure Properties is optional.

Once you have configured the use of Secure Properties, ACLI will require the password before executing any actions. The password can be provided interactively each time ACLI is run, or via an environment variable. If you don't want to use Secure Properties, you can follow the steps mentioned here.

Best, Amelie

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