Jamie Echlin, Adaptavist Staff engineer and creator of ScriptRunner, will talk about those situations where building automation in Jira can backfire. Running JQL functions in script fields, slow workflow condition functions, adding javascript to the announcement banner, inline scripts and endless loops are among the most common pitfalls for a Jira admin. Jamie will show you how to avoid them and will share some handy advice for building powerful automation in a responsible and scalable way.
Adaptavist
Staff Engineer & ScriptRunner Creator
Jamie Echlin has been working with dev tools since the mid-1990s, primarily in investment banks. Having worked with ClearCase, ClearQuest, Perforce and more, he graduated to the Git and the Atlassian stack.
He began developing ScriptRunner for JIRA in 2007, mainly just to make his own life easier. ScriptRunner has now been installed over 16,000 times and is available for JIRA, Confluenc…
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