What’s it handy for?

Power Scripts is a Swiss Army Knife that can help you customize Jira fully to your needs by building advanced automations and integrations based on SIL (Simple Issue Language) scripts. In this video, we’ll show you how to auto-populate the description field whenever a new issue is created.

This helps with:

Standardization & governance – keep tighter control over the issue creation process
Efficiency – ensure the development teams have the information they need to resolve an issue

To get started:

Write your script in the central repository where all scripts are stored in a file system – the SIL manager.
Customize the below script with the description that you want to be added to any new issues. it’s currently set up in steps, but you can also change it to a single sentence or a whole paragraph. Once you’re done customizing the script, save it and test it.

Example script:

string steps;

steps = "Please add the following information:\n";
steps += "# Overview ...\n";
steps += "# Expected behaviour ...\n";
steps += "# Technical details (if applicable) ...\n";
steps += "# Potential risks ...\n";
steps += "# Preferred communication channel\n";

description = steps;

Then, you navigate to your project’s workflow, select the relevant transition (“Create” in this case) and select “post function.”
After selecting “SIL post function” from the list, add your pre-created script, save your workflow, and you’re done.

Read the full use case in the product documentation.

Automatically pre-populate fields with Power Scripts

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