Announcing the Jira automation template library!

[#1]

Hi all, 

After many months of work, I am delighted to announce the launch of the Jira Automation Template Library! 

The Template Library is a new website dedicated to all things Jira automation. You will find hundreds of templates, guides showing how to use them and a safe sandbox to play around in. 

If you have previously been unsure about how or what to automate - this page will make life much easier. There are very few tools that can give you guaranteed time back in your week (while helping you sleep better). Jira Automation is that tool!

Check it out today here.

There are templates that work across all Jira products, Bitbucket, GitHub, Slack and tons more. As ever, we'd love to hear your feedback! 

Happy automating!

John

[Kalos Bonasia]

@John McKiernan good news, well done !

[Liam Green]

@John McKiernan - this is great!

Can you get a link to this on the settings page for Automation?  I think it would really help people

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @John McKiernan 

Thanks for this information; this is great!

I added a suggestion to make the rules in the playground exportable, helping people grab a template rule so they can adjust it to get going faster.  What do you think of making these new template library rules exportable (or portable to customer's site instances)?

Best regards,

Bill

[John McKiernan]

Hey @Liam Green ,

Good suggestion and on it already!

Should have that link up in-product in the next few weeks :)

Cheers,

John

[John McKiernan]

Hey @Bill Sheboy

Thanks for raising that feature.

It is definitely top of mind. We were keen to get this first milestone out the door but in a perfect world, you can simply click a button in the library which will import the rule into your own instance. 

At the least, it would be great to have the rules exportable as a JSON file. I will of course update everyone once we make progress but that milestone will take time :)

Cheers,

John

[Darryl Lee]

Oh man, I didn't see this til now. I need to adjust my notification settings.

Very cool stuff. But uhm... I noticed I could edit the name of a rule and Publish it.

Are you refreshing the rules on a periodic basis so that nobody accidentally breaks anything?

[Boy, the ability to bulk import and enable all rules, overwriting existing ones sure might be handy now, eh?]

(I'd love such a restore feature for Sandbox, if we had the ability to disable outgoing email for Automation, or if we could disable scheduled tasks.)

[Hannes Roth]

Cool :)

[Benoit]

Hi, great, but way too basic. Can we send suggestion of template too?

Thanks.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Benoit 

Yes, and... perhaps crowd-source this with a customer upload/download library, in support of discussions such as this one: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-discussions/What-is-your-most-useful-automation-Here-is-mine/td-p/1560668

And this suggestion to allow downloading the rules for import: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-75586

Best regards,

Bill

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @John McKiernan 

Did you notice that the rules in the automation library all seem to be broken... as if Automation for Jira is a missing the add-on?  Please see below.

Thanks,
Bill

[John McKiernan]

Hey @Benoit ,

Apologies for the slow response. Just back from parental leave. At this stage, it is directed a little more at beginners than power users like yourself but we will be adding to it over time with more complex automations. Ideally, as @Bill Sheboy mentioned, the rules will be downloadable and also uploadable so we can cut out the middle man (me & engineers) and have 1000s of great rules. This will take time though. In the meantime, I'll continue to add to the library with recommendations. 

Thanks!

John 

[John McKiernan]

@Bill Sheboy - thanks for the heads up regarding that issue in the playground. I came back from parental leave this morning and panicked! However, the engineers had already picked up on it and are working on a fix. Apologies for that. It is a pretty new thing we are attempting so I expect some teething issues. Should be fixed soon :)

Cheers,

John