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September 20, 2021

Create Confluence Cloud spaces from Jira Cloud Workflow Postfunction (with Scriptrunner)

First of all, create a new API Key Token: Create an API key: https://id.atlassian.com/manage/api-tokens# Combine the key with login name in base64 string, go to https://www.base64encode.org/ Format is loginname:API-key exampel: email@email.com:ABCDE12345 give result: a3Jpc3Rlci5icm9tYW5AYWR2YW5pYS5zZTpBQkNERTEyMzQ1 Combine this with the authentication type in the below case a basic so the full text is: Basic a3Jpc3Rlci5icm9tYW5AYWR2YW5pYS5zZTpBQkNERTEyMzQ1 Now we are ready to create the…

July 26, 2021

REST Endpoint to RESET CAPTCHA of users in Jira Server using Scriptrunner

A simple example code: function CaptchaReset(username) Example query: /rest/scriptrunner/latest/custom/CaptchaReset?username=mraddon Example result: {“result”:”OK”} By MrAddon

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

Example of Jira REST Endpoint with Groovy and using the user session

A simple example code: function getCurrentUser(issueId) Example query: /rest/scriptrunner/latest/custom/getCurrentUser?issueId=KEY-111 Example result: {“currentUser”:”rpelaez”,”issueId”:”KEY-111″} By MrAddon .

June 12, 2020June 12, 2020

How to create a Slack Bot in 5 minutes

In this post we will create in an easy way a new Slack Bot to obtain results of the rankings from Crypto-coin markets. In this case from https://coinmarketrank.io/ Just go to https://api.slack.com/apps?new_app=1 Set an App name and a Workplace to add the robot development like in the picture Click on “Slack Commands” (we will create…

October 13, 2019October 13, 2019

TERRAFORM or When the hardware becomes lines of code…

Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions. Infrastructure is described using a high-level configuration syntax. This allows a blueprint of your datacenter to be versioned and treated as you would any other code. Additionally, infrastructure…

October 5, 2019October 5, 2019

How to install a PHP JIRA REST API Client

In this example, we will try to install in 5 minutes a PHP Jira Client script in a MacOS system. The prerequisites are: (Homebrew) brew for MacOS CURL for MacOS PHP 7 for MacOS Composer for MacOS php-jira-rest-client library Install instructions with example: Download and Install PHP Composer. curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php Next, run…

September 26, 2019September 26, 2019

How to create a Jira custom field with options from an external REST API

To do this exercise, we will use the famous plugin for Jira called Adaptavist Scriptrunner. First step, we need to create a REST Endpoint in our Jira Server. This REST Endpoint will query the external REST API to obtain the values and options (In this example we will query GitHub to obtain a list of…

July 20, 2019

The Open Source alternative to Jira Software Cloud and Server. We talk about Taiga.io

Some days ago, we talk about the possibility of an Open Source Jira Software: What would happen if Atlassian ends its famous ecosystem? Open Jira fork is possible? Exist at this moment one really good system to track tasks and Software projects that can be run On Premise or in SaaS (like Jira Software Cloud).…

February 14, 2019February 14, 2019

Jira and authentication for REST API

In Jira exists two types of authentication: Basic Auth (in other words, user:password… or the same but base64 encoded) and OAuth (more complex to implement but without “passwords”). Exist a third option, The cookie-based Auth (but it’s depcrecated), and exist a new OAuth2 version currently in development. Here we want to explain the pro and…

October 28, 2018October 28, 2018

How to publish your WordPress blog posts / feed to an external Website using Javascript

Very easy! Just install the plugin JSON API in your WordPress ( to allow a REST API to export your blog posts). See more. We can try the plugin doing a simple request by URL to your WordPress blog. https://www.your_wordpress.com/api/get_recent_posts/ We will obtain a response in Json like this: We can format the response to…

July 16, 2018July 16, 2018

How to print custom PDF templates of Jira tickets using Confluence

In this example, we will create a Confluence page and we will use it as “Template” to print documents (in this case issue tickets) in PDF or directly to the printer. Based on this exercise: How to show Jira ticket fields in Confluence pages As prerequisites we need: Jira Server Confluence Server Optional: Atlassian Crowd to…

July 1, 2018July 1, 2018

Best tools to manage the evolution of your cryptocurrencies: CoinMarketRank.io

We have the pleasure to present our new tool to track/control/manage your best cryptocurrencies. With this tool you will be able to predict the next crypto unicorns! Track, analyze, report, control, manage all-in-one web! Visit CoinMarketRank.io No login needed, just enter and play/observe! The application uses the best tools and APIs of the Market: CoinMarketCap…

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REST Endpoint to RESET CAPTCHA of users in Jira Server using Scriptrunner

Example of Jira REST Endpoint with Groovy and using the user session

How to create a Slack Bot in 5 minutes

How to create a Jira custom field with options from an external REST API

Jira and authentication for REST API

How to publish your WordPress blog posts / feed to an external Website using Javascript

How to print custom PDF templates of Jira tickets using Confluence

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