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Automation to notify members when today is the start date of a Release?

Gordon Bissell

I've been looking at Project Settings -> Automation for a company-managed Jira project, and I see numerous possible rules; such as sending a Slack message when a new version/release is created.

What I'd like to do is create a scheduled (daily) automation rule that loops through all unreleased versions in the current project, and send a slack message if the start date of a version matches the current date.

I can add a When: Scheduled block, then a For: block, but there's no option to iterate through versions (all the options appear to be related to issues).

Is there a way to essentially do:

FOR 9:00am each day
FOR all versions in project
IF version.startDate == today THEN send message

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Kalyan Sattaluri_iinm1n

Hello @Gordon Bissell

*EDITED*

Thinking again, Correct approach is to make a REST call to get Project Versions, loop through the result set and find your version of interest.

Cause even if you had Scriptunner or other add-on, you would need issues tagged to the version to be able to query against.

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Kalyan Sattaluri_iinm1n

Hello @Gordon Bissell

*EDITED*

Thinking again, Correct approach is to make a REST call to get Project Versions, loop through the result set and find your version of interest.

Cause even if you had Scriptunner or other add-on, you would need issues tagged to the version to be able to query against.

Gordon Bissell

I use the Python Jira library to get data from issues, and I see there are functions to get version info from a project. The problem is that - I assume like using REST calls - that's all got to run externally to Jira, so I need some other server run the scheduled job.

Kalyan Sattaluri_iinm1n

Within Jira automation, after your "Scheduled" trigger, you will do Action-> Send Web Request and make the call to get all project versions.

Once you have it, you can loop through and send your notification.

So to do this, select Send Web request Action,

- URL = https://yourdomain.net/rest/api/3/project/{projectIdOrKey}/versions
- Authentication. Follow these steps.
- GET

Then at the bottom of the same screen click "Validate", if you get 200 status in response with all versions in payload, I can share next steps on looping through response.

Gordon Bissell

I've tried that, but when the rule runs I get a 404 error (No project could be found with key 'xx').

From the authentication link (https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/basic-auth-for-rest-apis/#supply-basic-auth-headers) I've tried the same via a curl request, and that also gives me the same error. I've tried a few different project keys that are in our Jira instance, and also the numerical ID for one of the projects; and all give the same 404 error.

Via the Python jira library I can run a jira.projects() call and get a list (using the same user email, URL, and auth token).

Though I note that I get the same 404 error if I corrupt the auth token in my curl call, so maybe I'm using the "wrong" auth token.

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