Is there an automated way to receive an email with a summary of activities?

[Maria Fernanda Costa de Melo]

Is there a way to automate Jira so that at the beginning of each week it sends an email to the 'people' in the project with a summary of the previous week's activities?

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Maria Fernanda Costa de Melo 

What problem are you trying to solve by doing this?  Knowing that may help the community to offer better suggestions.  Thanks!

Until we know that...

What do you mean by a "summary of the previous week's activities"?

If you mean a list of any issues created or changed, you could create a JQL statement to list those issues.  To learn more about creating such JQL, please look here: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/what-is-advanced-search-in-jira-cloud/

Once that JQL is created, you try the following:

• create a saved filter, and let people subscribe to it for updates
• create a shared dashboard, and let people view it as they wish
• create an automation rule, and send people an email

Kind regards,
Bill

[Maria Fernanda Costa de Melo]

Hi @BIL !

Thank your for answering me.  I'd like to set up an automation so that I can get a summary of the week's activities for myself and my team, for example: what was created? any tasks completed?

[Bill Sheboy]

Please try creating the JQL first, perhaps using the date functions like startOfWeek(): https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/jql-functions/#startOfWeek--

With that you could use a scheduled trigger rule to run weekly.

To get you started on creating your rule, please refer to these documentation and example sources:

• https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/guides/automation/overview#what-is-automation
• https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/automation-template-library#/rule-list?systemLabelId=all&page=1&pageSize=20&sortKey=name&sortOrder=ASC
• https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-issues/
• https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/use-advanced-search-with-jira-query-language-jql/

[Maria Fernanda Costa de Melo]

Thank you!