Jira Project Creation

Table of Contents

• Overview
  • Operations Manager and JSON-Form
• Installation Prerequisites
• Requirements
• Features
• Future Enhancements
• How to Install
• How to Run
  • Input Variables
• Additional Information

Overview

This Pre-Built integrates with the Jira Open Source Adapter to create a project within Jira. This Pre-Built may be leveraged if a process consistently requires creating a new project within Jira.

Operations Manager and JSON-Form

This workflow has an Operations Manager Item that calls a workflow. The Ops Manager Item uses a JSON Form to specify common fields populated when a Project is created. The workflow the Ops Manager item calls queries data from the formData job variable.

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Installation Prerequisites

Users must satisfy the following pre-requisites:

• Itential Automation Platform
  • ^2022.1
• Jira Open Source Adapter
  • ^1.7.2

Requirements

This Pre-Built requires the following:

• A Jira Open Source Adapter.
• A Jira account that has permission to create an issue.

Features

The main benefits and features of the Pre-Built are outlined below.

• Allows user to create a Jira Project and define the following attributes via form for the project:
  • name of the project
  • project type (business or software)
  • project template key, which denotes the project template
  • abbreviated name of the project
  • description of the project
  • project lead for the project
  • the default assignee for the project

How to Install

To install the Pre-Built:

• Verify you are running a supported version of the Itential Automation Platform (IAP) as listed above in the Requirements section in order to install the Pre-Built.
• The Pre-Built can be installed from within App-Admin_Essential. Simply search for the name of your desired Pre-Built and click the install button.

How to Run

Use the following to run the Pre-Built:

• Run the Operations Manager Item Jira Project Creation or call Jira Project Creation from your workflow as a child job.

Input Variables

Example

{
  "name": "The name of the Jira Project",
  "projectType": "The Jira Project type, which dictates the application-specific feature set: software, service_desk or business",
  "projectTemplateKey": "A prebuilt configuration for a project",
  "abbreviatedName": "The Jira Project key",
  "description": "A brief description of the Jira Project",
  "leadAccountId": "The account ID of the Jira Project lead",
  "assigneeType": "The default assignee when creating issues for this Jira Project"
}

Additional Information

Please use your Itential Customer Success account if you need support when using this Pre-Built.