How do I manually trigger an automation

[Zaldy Parian]

Hi all,

I'm hoping someone could help me with my question. 

I created a manually triggered automation. But I could not find how I could actually run the automation.  I saw some posting that says....

To manually run a rule:

1. On the issue view, navigate to the Automation tools and click Rule executions.

2. Select a rule from the Run a manually triggered rule list, and click Run.

But I could seem to find the Automation tools. I'm using Jira Cloud. 

Can someone please show some screenshot where I could locate where I could run the automation manually?

Regards,

Zaldy

[Kristin Lyons · Accepted solution]

If you're looking at an issue, it will be on the right hand column, there will be a field called "Automation" and then a lightning bolt and "Rule executions".  If you click on that, it will allow you to run a manual rule.

[Zaldy Parian]

Thanks, Kristin.

For those using the new issue view, the Automation is shown in the attached screenshot.

Btw, is there a way I could update multiple issues at once through manual automation?

Regards,

Zaldy

[Kristin Lyons]

If you have the automation set up to affect multiple issues at once, then just running it on any issue will run the whole automation.  For example if you have a manual execution set to edit all issues that are in open status, then running the manual automation from any issue will edit all the issues in open status.

[Zaldy Parian]

Hi Kristin,

Wonderful. I didn't know that is possible. I'll try it later. Thanks for the suggestion and your prompt replies.

Cheers,

Zaldy

[Fanish Dewangan]

Hi Kris, I am trying to update multiple issues to remove a specific watcher. I setup the rule and ran it from a issue but it did not update all the other issues but only that issue.

Any idea why or what i am missing here.

[Kristin Lyons]

@Fanish Dewangan  Can you show a screenshot of the Automation that you have set up?