How JIRA Automation Places an Appointment in the Destination Outlook Calendar

Question

With JIRA automation, you can use the Send Mail flow to mail filtered tasks to a destination. Is it possible to insert a task schedule into the recipient's Outlook calendar? Or, is it possible to attach the ICS file to the e-mail? If ICS files can be attached, can you create a flow to create them? If you know, please let me know.

Stephen.Lugton · Answer

As far as I know you'll have to manually add the date/time information after dragging the email to the calendar icon, I'm not familiar enough with automation for Outlook calendar to be able to help

Isao IKEDA · Answer

Create an automated on-schedule flow and if so: Send mail flow.
For example, set the filter this way.
project = AAA and type = subtask and status = "To Do" and "Start date [date]" <= 0d
In the mail sending flow, mail is sent as follows.

Subject: Duration of the task {{issue.summary}}
Articles:
You are in charge of {{issue.key}} {{issue.summary}}.
Start Date: {{issue.startDate}}
Due Date: {{issue.duedate}}

I would like to know how the recipient of this email can schedule their Outlook calendar for the start date and due date period.

But first, the {{issue.startDate}} variable does not return the value of the field.
Now that I have this, I want to know how to embed it in my Outlook calendar.
The email you received is text and does not contain calendar information. How do I receive this information and automatically embed it in my Outlook calendar?

Isao IKEDA · Answer

Thank you.
Continue with your questions.