Jira

Jira is an issue-tracking product developed by Atlassian that allows bug tracking and agile project management. You can use Jira to plan, track, and release software. In the context of Nintex Automation Cloud, Jira is a connector and is used to create connections for Jira actions and data sources. For more information on Jira, see the company website.

Use the Jira action A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. to create an issue in a Jira project. Use Jira data sources to retrieve issue types, priorities, projects, and users. These actions and data sources are based on the user whose details are provided in the Jira connection.

Create a Jira connection

Create a connection from the connections page or from the action configuration panel when configuring the action. For information about creating connections and assigning permissions, see Manage connections.

Jira account requirements

• Nintex Automation Cloud uses the Nintex Automation Cloud - Jira Connector to create Jira connections. The connection requires you to grant permissions to read and write data.
• The user credentials used to create the Jira connection determines the permissions that the user has to Jira actions and data sources. See Authentication and authorization for more information.

Create a data source

Use the Jira data source to create a drop-down list of Jira issue types, priorities, projects, and users. Each data source is configured for a specific user. You can create as many data sources as you need. For more information on creating a data source and assigning permissions to it, see Data sources.

For example, to allow users to select a specific issue type in a form, add a drop-down list of issue types to the form using a Data lookup control A form control that allows users to select from a drop-down list of values that have been fetched from a third-party service.. The Data lookup control uses a Jira - Get issue types data source to list the issue types associated with the project.

You can create a data source to:

• Get issue types: list all the issue types associated with the project/user.
• Get priorities: list all the priorities associated with the project/user.
• Get projects: list all the projects of the user.
• Get accessible resources: list all the resources associated with the user. Use the id of this data source as the cloud id variable in the Jira - Create an issue action.

Jira data source fields

When you create a Jira data source, you can configure additional fields.

To access the data source fields, in the Add data source section, select the Connector and the Operation.

The following operations are available for the Jira connector:

• Get issue types: List all the issue types associated with the project/user.
• Get priorities: List all the priorities associated with the project/user.
• Get projects: List all the projects of the user.
• Get accessible resources: List all the resources associated with the user. Use the id of this data source as the cloud id variable in the Jira - Create an issue action.

The configuration fields displayed depend on the operation selected.

Operation	Field or selection	Description
Get issue types	Connection	The connection to use for the data source.
	Accessible resource	The resource to access.
	Project name	The project name in Jira.
Get accessible resources	Connection	The connection to use for the data source.
Get priorities	Connection	The connection to use for the data source.
	Accessible resource	The resource to access.
Get projects	Connection	The number of users to skip from the start.
	Accessible resource	The resource to access.
	Browse archive	Browse all archived projects when getting project or not.