Automation For Jira - How to create a rule that sends list of opened and closed stories from an on-going Sprint

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Summary

This article describes how to create an Automation Rule using the Lookup Issues action (available in Automation for Jira from the version 9.0.1), which will send a daily email to a group of users, including the list of opened and closed stories from on-going sprints.

Note that this solution is only valid in the case where parallel Sprints are disabled in Jira (there is only one on-going Sprint per backlog).

Solution

Rule configuration details

The rule will need to be configured as follows:

  • Add the Scheduled trigger with the settings below:

    • Frequency: Once per day

    • Select the option simply run the conditions and actions without providing issues

  • Add the Lookup issues action with the JQL below. Feel free to adjust it to your liking, for example by filtering with a specific project.

Sprint in opensprints() AND issuetype = Story AND Resolution is empty

  • Add the Create variable action with the parameters below:

    • Variable name: OpenedIssues

    • Smart Variable:

{{#lookupIssues}}<tr><td><a href="{{url}}">{{key}}</a></td><td><a href="{{url}}">{{summary}}</a></td><td><em>{{assignee.displayName}}</em></td></tr>{{/}}

  • Add the Lookup issues action with the JQL below. Feel free to adjust it to your liking, for example by filtering with a specific project.

Sprint in opensprints() AND issuetype = Story AND Resolution is not empty

  • Add the Create variable action with the parameters below:

    • Variable name: ResolvedIssues

    • Smart Variable:

{{#lookupIssues}}<tr><td><a href="{{url}}">{{key}}</a></td><td><a href="{{url}}">{{summary}}</a></td><td><em>{{assignee.displayName}}</em></td></tr>{{/}}

  • Add the Send email action with the settings below:

In More Options, untick the option Convert line breaks to HTML line breaks

Send as HTML
  • To: Choose the Jira group of your choice

  • Subject: You can use the suggestion below:

List of on-going and resolved issues in current sprint

  • Content: You can use the suggestion below, which will list all the issues along with their URL, summary, and assignee:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 <h2>List of on-going and resolved issues in current sprint</h2> <h3>On-going Issues from Sprint</h3> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <thead> <tr> <th align= "left">Key</th> <th align= "left">Summary</th> <th align= "left">Assignee</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> {{OpenedIssues}} </tbody> </table> <h3>Resolved Issues from Sprint</h3> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <thead> <tr> <th align= "left">Key</th> <th align= "left">Summary</th> <th align= "left">Assignee</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> {{ResolvedIssues}} </tbody> </table>

Screenshot of the rule

The complete rule is illustrated in the screenshot below:

Automation rule sending out list of open and closed stories in a sprint

Example of email sent by this rule

Example of email being sent out by automation rule

Updated on May 31, 2024

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