Sidehistorik
JIRA Jira can be very efficient, but out of the box no real automation exists..In the "good old days", the only way to do this was JellyScript - a horrible XML implementation of scripting, java wrapped in XML..
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Interfacing
These days several other ways exist:
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Automation App | Almost standard now-a-days... (and You get it automatically in cloud) Some Apps, like JSU App and Script Runner App offer parts of automation | ||||||||
Atlassian CLI | Can be "integrated via shell calls from script, powershell and other programming languages. As it is java based, it is virtually platform independant, the main downside is that is is slow. | ||||||||
JIRA JellyScript | See Atlassian (old) samples at: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Jelly+Escalation
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Supported by the Script Runner App and some other Apps. | See some samples at https://jamieechlin.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GRV/Miscellaneous+Groovy+Scripts library.adaptavist.com | ||||||||
REST API | Interfacing with JIRA through webservices - REST, The SOAP and XML-RCP is deprecated |
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