How to Reuse Automation Rules Across Projects in Jira?

[Dario]

Hello,

Is there a way in Jira to avoid creating automations for every new project?
Is there an automation scheme, similar to workflows or issue types?

Thank you!

[Susan Waldrip · Accepted solution]

Hi @Dario , welcome to the Community!

If I understand your question right, when you are working in Global Automation (as a Jira admin), you can specify the scope of that rule. Getting to Global Automation is Settings (gear) > System > AUTOMATION: Global Automation.

For example, Automation A can be applied to a single project (which is what it sounds like you're talking about?), multiple projects in your site that you select, by a type of project such as Business Project or Scrum, or Globally where Automation A will run on ALL projects.

Is that what you're looking for?

[Dario]

Hi @Susan Waldrip ,

Thank you, that’s exactly what I was looking for!

Jira is such a vast platform that, even though I’ve been working with it since 2016, sometimes you still need someone to guide you along the way. 😊

Thanks again!

Best regards,

[Valerie Knapp · Accepted solution]

Hi @Dario , thanks for your question.

The answer in this moment is unfortunately no. You can have obviously rules that have mulitple projects or the whole instance in their scope. I understand, however, that these count differently in terms of the instance consumption of automation.

How many rules do you have per project? Is there potential to create some of them as global rules and then you would only need to replicate a smaller number to propogate to new projects.

[Dario]

Thanks @Valerie Knapp