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JIRA Connector (Macro)
Public Gallery Link: https://gallery.alteryx.com/#!app/JIRA-Connector/58d87c2feffc2a0dd0b5ed8f
I've published a JIRA Connector to the public gallery and hope it will be useful for those using JIRA that are looking for a way to quickly download issues for their JIRA projects. It's pretty straightforward, but here's a preview and quick guide:
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Installation & Configuration
Download and import to your Macros folder
As long as your macro folder has been mapped (Options -> User Settings -> Edit User Settings -> Macros), you should find the JIRA Connector tool in the Connectors category on the tool palette the next time you open Alteryx.
Tool Configuration
3 Tabs: Site & Login, Project & Issues, Fields
Site & Login
Enter the URL for your JIRA site along with your username and password. Email logins will work, but your actual username is preferable because it enables the "Only My Issues" option to work (next tab).
Project & Issues
You'll need to run the workflow at least once with the "Refresh Project List" option selected before being able to use the "Download Issues" option. This loads a list of available JIRA projects that will show in the dropdown under the Download Issues option on subsequent runs.
Once an available project list has loaded, you can select a project to download issues from. You'll also notice some options for filtering issues that belong to yourself or another specific assignee. You can also paginate through large result sets in 1,000 record increments.
Fields
Lastly, select one of three options for returned fields and parsing methods.
- Standard - Formatted
- Includes the commonly used JIRA system fields and utilizes more practical parsing and formatting methods
- Standard - Raw
- Includes all JIRA system fields and transposes/flattens multi-dimensional arrays (to a certain extent/depth)
- Can yield wide results
- The Kitchen Sink
- Includes all system fields, as well as custom fields
- Parsed results for this option will likely be very wide and cumbersome
Output
Summary (S) - a brief summary of the results (record counts, etc.)
Raw JSON (J) - direct JSON response from the JIRA REST API
Parsed Results (P) - the parsed results
That's it! Once again, I hope this will be useful and look forward to getting some decent feedback. I've only been able to test this on our company's [cloud hosted] JIRA projects and honestly have no idea if it will work for private server hosted JIRA environments.
Please feel free to leave feedback and/or report any runtime errors below. I'll do my best to publish new versions to the gallery with essential fixes.
Taylor Cox
Solved! Go to Solution.
Thanks for the kudos, I'm glad you like the connector! Also, the feedback is much appreciated as I was hoping for ideas for improvement, etc.
I've published Version 3, which features a couple of minor enhancements that address the question and suggestion that you made.
"Is there a way to boost the results past 1000, or is this a function of the API?"
- The JIRA API record limits will vary based on an installation's config property setting. For cloud instances, I don't believe this can be changed without opening a JIRA service ticket. Our company's cloud instance, for example, limits # of results to 1,000 for the API endpoint being used in the connector (/rest/api/latest/search). However, I upped the limit in the connector to 5,000 in the chance that an install allows more. Lastly, check out the example for pagination (bottom) - this will help in understanding how you can pull the remaining issues if you have more than 1,000 (or whatever your limit may be).
"One piece of possible feedback for the future: under Project Issues, "Only My Issues" returns just those assigned to me. It would be helpful if this could also return those that I created, or am watching."
- I added 2 options under "Only My Issues". One which returns those assigned to you, and one which returns those reported by you. I'm not sure yet how to query those that you're watching...
Updated Config
I'm not yet sure how to execute "OR" statements in a POST array via JQL - so here's how you could get a list of any issues that are either assigned to you OR reported by you.
Pagination Example
Hope this helps!
Another pagination solution would be something like the following:
Use the JIRA Connector to get the limit and total issues --> Auto Field --> Generate Rows (see settings on screenshot) --> formula to fix initialization row --> Next JIRA Macro to overwrite the "Limit" and "Starting With" values. Add the Unique ID tool as a safety measure (Pending).
Thanks
