Automation
15 min
Advanced
This lesson contains exam hints about automation in Jira projects. You will also explore sandbox challenges to give you a hands-on experience to prepare you for various kinds of scenario-based questions in the exam.
Exam hints
Keep these hints in mind as you prepare for your exam. They cover essential areas that will guide you while you tackle the questions effectively and will help you navigate the exam with confidence.
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Sandbox challenges
To pass the exam, technical knowledge of managing Jira projects is crucial, but it is not enough. The majority of exam questions are based on scenarios that must be understood, analyzed, and evaluated to find the correct answer that fits the stated constraints.
The following challenges will assist you in exploring scenarios with performing bulk functions, creating filters, a filter subscription, and a dashboard and creating automation rules. They will help to develop your approach and prompt you to investigate different methods and solutions as you prepare for the exam.
Perform bulk operations
- Execute a bulk update to assign Unassigned issues.
- Find all issues in the system and start a bulk transition operation. Notice you may have to choose different transitions for different issues, depending on their current status. Cancel and do not complete the bulk update.
- Perform a bulk edit operation to replace a label with another one.
Create filters, a filter subscription, and a dashboard
In this challenge, you will experiment with creating filters, a subscription, and a dashboard.
- Create and share a filter for all the issues in a project.
- Create and share a dashboard with the following gadgets, using the filter you have just created.
- Filter Results
- Labels
- Two or three Pie Charts with different statistic types
- Two or three Issue Statistics with different statistic types
- Assigned to Me
- Two Dimensional Filter Statistics
- Issues in progress
- Create a filter subscription to be sent to all Jira users every weekday once per day at 9:30 AM.
- Run the filter to see the results in your email.
- Delete the subscription after it has run on its own.
- Create a filter that includes issues where the current user is the assignee and add it to the dashboard.
- Log in as each user to see the difference.
Create automation rules
- Create and test a rule using an if-else block that updates the assignee based on editing the value in the Color field.
- Red - You
- Amber - Another user
- Green - Unassigned
- Create and test a rule using a branch that updates sub-tasks to have the same component as the parent issue, when the component is changed on the parent. Including:
- One component is added.
- Additional components are added.
- All components are removed.
- Create and test a rule where the rule actor must have the Schedule Issues permission in a company-managed project.
- Hint: Update the due date to be due five business days from now, when the priority is updated to be Highest. You can use the smart value {{now.plusBusinessDays(5)}}
- Hint: Users must have the Managers project role to set the due date.
- Experiment with a rule actor who is, and is not, in this role.