Test an automation flow using the Manual trigger

When configuring an automation flow, you may want to test it first before enabling it for use on real data.

While there’s no “test” function in Atlassian Cloud automation, you can test your flows manually using the Manual trigger from a work item trigger. This allows you to manually execute a flow by triggering it on the detail view of a work item.

How to test your automation flows

Create your flow

1. While configuring a flow, select the Manual trigger. You can restrict which groups can view and manually run the flow when setting up this trigger.

   • If you select Prompt for input when this flow is triggered, you’ll also be able to create a form that will appear when someone triggers the flow, which they'll need to fill in before the flow runs.

2. Save your flow.

Test your flow

In Jira:

1. Navigate to an issue, and select the Actions dropdown menu.

2. Select your flow from the list. You flow will immediately start running.

In Confluence:

1. Navigate to a page (manual flows aren’t available on blogs) and select Automation or select a on your keyboard.

2. Select your flow from the list. You flow will immediately start running.

Read more

Check out how we use manual triggers in our Jira automation template library.