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Activities

 

Connect to JIRA

This activity connects to the specified JIRA account and outputs a JIRA client connection.

Activity Parameters

The Connect to JIRA activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

 

Parameters:

  • Base URL (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the URL for the JIRA website. E.g. "https://flowster-solutions.atlassian.net" .
  • Password (password editor type) (type: string): the password for the provided username.
  • Password Binding (text box editor type) (type: string): bind to a variable containing the encrypted password for the connection. (This parameter is used only when the user wants to send an encripted password from outside the task, for example Flowster Portal).
  • Username (text box editor type) (type: string): the username for the JIRA account.

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

  • Connection (type: object): outputs an JIRA Connection. This parameter should be used as input for all Connection parameters used for activities placed under JIRA category.
 

As mentioned above, the values for all the required parameters can be provided by IN arguments or variables or input directly in the property field. E.g. "D00012" for Username property.

 

Disconnect from JIRA

This activity disconnects the specified JIRA account. 

Activity Parameters

The Disconnect from JIRA activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

  • Connection (text box editor type) (type: object): the JIRA Connection. The output parameter from Connect To JIRA activity should be used as Input here.

 

Create Issue

This activity creates a new issue in JIRA.

Activity Parameters

The Create Issue activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

  • Assignee (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the assignee name. E.g. "D00018" is the username of the JIRA account that the new created task will be assigned to.
  • Description (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the description for the new created JIRA issue.
  • Issue Type (combo box control) (type: string): select the text value of the issue type. E.g. "New Feature" if the new created issue is a new feature type of JIRA task.
  • Project Key (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the project key where the new JIRA issue will be created. Use GetProjects activity to obtain the existing JIRA project keys or input directly the project key value. E.g. "FLOWSTER" for the project key.  
  • Summary (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the summary text (title of the issue) for the new JIRA issue.

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

  • Output Id (type: string): outputs the ID for the new created issue. 
  • Output Key (type: string): outputs the Key for the new created issue.

 If you want to display the value of the string output parameters use any logging activity that displays string values. E.g. LogTrackData activity.

 

 

As mentioned above, the values for all the required parameters can be provided by IN arguments or variables ( E.g.JIRAConnection variable for Connection property) or input directly in the property field ( E.g. "FLOWSTER" value for Project Key property).

 

 

Delete Issue

This activity deletes a specified issue in JIRA.

Activity Parameters

The Delete Issue activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

  • Issue Key Or ID (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the key or id for the issue to be deleted. Use Get Issues activity to obtain the existing JIRA issues keys and ids or input directly the value.  E.g. "FLOW-1200" representing the key of the issue to be deleted. This key of the issue is also visible in JIRA website.   

 

As mentioned above, the values for all the required parameters can be provided by IN arguments or variables ( E.g.IssueKey variable for 'Issue Key Or ID' property) or input directly in the property field. The value stored in IssueKey variable may be the output of Create Issue or Get Issues activities.

 NOTE: the username used to create the connection to the JIRA website must have rights to delete issues. (E.g. the user must have Administrative rights)

 

Get Issues

This activity retrieves a collection of issues for the existing JIRA account.

Activity Parameters

The Get Issues activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

  • Filter By (combo box control) (type: string): the property name by which you want to filter the results (ex: name, sAMAccountName).
  • Filter Value (text box editor type) (type: string): the value (for the 'Filter by' parameter) by which you want to filter the results.
  • Location (text box editor type) (type: string): the Active Directory path from where you want to retrieve the entries.
  • Object Class (combo box control) (type: string): choose the class of the entries you want to retrieve.

As mentioned above, the values for all the required parameters can be provided by IN arguments or variables. Below is an example of predefined arguments, ready to be used by the Get Entries by Filter activity:

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

  • Output (type: collection<collection<collection<string>>>): returns a collection of entries (their paths and attributes).To use the elements of the collection, use Get Element From Collection activity.
  • Output Rows (type: int32): outputs the number of rows retrieved.
 

 

 

 

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