Many options are available to help you automate tasks across Atlassian products. From user-friendly, no-code solutions like Automation for Jira and Confluence to powerful third-party apps, users have ample choices to enhance their automation capabilities. However, for developers seeking a little excitement, Atlassian Cloud offers an innovative app development platform called Forge.
When it comes to automating tasks across Atlassian products, a range of options are available, catering to different levels of coding expertise and customization needs.
Automation for Jira and Confluence offers a quick and straightforward no-code solution for most scenarios. Additionally, apps like JMWE, JSU, and JWT can extend automation functionality and enhance your app capabilities, also with little or no coding required. Apps like Scriptrunner and Power Scripts provide added flexibility and customization options for those eager to delve into coding.
However, if you are a seasoned developer and are willing to get your hands dirty with coding, while these apps allow you to extend the capabilities even further and tailor the automation to your specific needs, another option is available to developers in Atlassian Cloud: Forge.
Forge, from Atlassian, is an app development platform integrated into Atlassian Cloud. It allows you to write code that executes in response to events such as Jira issue transitions, Confluence page views, and even external events. If you have experience using Atlassian APIs for custom scripting, Forge operates similarly. However, it provides a development and hosting environment already set up and ready to connect with Atlassian products.
In this article, you can read about an example of the need to create a Confluence page when a new Jira issue is generated, with the additional requirement of embedding the Jira issue within the page's body. While automation can handle the majority of this process, it does not support creating a Confluence page with specific content in its body. At least not out-of-the-box.
Automation for Jira and Confluence offers a quick and straightforward no-code solution for most scenarios. Additionally, apps like JMWE, JSU, and JWT can extend automation functionality and enhance your app capabilities, also with little or no coding required. Apps like Scriptrunner and Power Scripts provide added flexibility and customization options for those eager to delve into coding.
However, if you are a seasoned developer and are willing to get your hands dirty with coding, while these apps allow you to extend the capabilities even further and tailor the automation to your specific needs, another option is available to developers in Atlassian Cloud: Forge.
Forge, from Atlassian, is an app development platform integrated into Atlassian Cloud. It allows you to write code that executes in response to events such as Jira issue transitions, Confluence page views, and even external events. If you have experience using Atlassian APIs for custom scripting, Forge operates similarly. However, it provides a development and hosting environment already set up and ready to connect with Atlassian products.
In this article, you can read about an example of the need to create a Confluence page when a new Jira issue is generated, with the additional requirement of embedding the Jira issue within the page's body. While automation can handle the majority of this process, it does not support creating a Confluence page with specific content in its body. At least not out-of-the-box.
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