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Jira Integration - Migrate and Federate with Jira

The Jira connector is available for any Jira instance that uses version 2 or 3 of the JiraREST API. There are 2 ways to connector to Jira. However, the authentication method depends on whether you're connecting to an on premise instance of Jira or a cloud based instance of Jira.

There are 2 ways to connector to Jira. However, the authentication method depends on whether you're connecting to an on premise instance of Jira or a cloud based instance of Jira. OAuth Authentication for Cloud Jira requires an app to authenticate and interact with. The other parameters are required to specify the project you plan on interacting with.

Jira Cloud App Configuration

Please visit developer.atlassian.com/apps to create an app. Once you create your app you'll need to collect a bit of information and do some configuration.

Jira AppYou'll need to configure the Authorization code grant callback URL to your Simflofy instance.Callback URLCurrently, the Jira connectors only support interactions with one Project at a time. The app must have full/admin level access to theJira instance. You'll need to add all the APIs listed below in order for this connector to work.Add APIFrom there you configure the APIs to include all permissions.Jira Platform REST API

Authentication Connection

There are 2 ways to connector to Jira. However, the authentication method depends on whether you're connecting to an on premise instance of Jira or a cloud based instance of Jira.

Jira Cloud

This Connector is for a Cloud instance of Jira only. It interacts with Jira through the Rest API version 3.O Auth Authentication for Cloud Jira requires an app to authenticate and interact with. Follow the steps above to set up your cloud app.

SSL Required

You will ALWAYS need to enable SSL on your Simflofy instance in order to use OAuth 2.0 for Authorization. In this case, you would replace the localhost with your Simflofy server host and replace the 9443 with your port (if you're not using a publicly facing DNS).

See this page for how to configure tomcat to use SSL.

Name: Unique name for this auth connector.

  • Client ID: Client ID from the Application you set up in the Atlassian App Management area earlier.
  • Client Secret: Secret from the Application you set up in the Atlassian App Management area earlier.
  • Cloud Domain: The Domain of the Jira Cloud instance you wish to connect to without atlassian.net connected to it. The example should help explain.
  • Jira Project Key: The Project Key associated to the Project in Jira you would like to interact with.

Click Authenticate and to complete the process.

Discovery Connector

Discovery Instance Fields

  • Name: Unique Name for the Discovery Connection to identify it in the UI.
  • Authentication Connection: Your Jira Auth connection. Either Cloud or Basic
  • Ignore Types: Comma delimited list of types to ignore. Note that you can have regex as well.
    • So to ignore all types with "workflow" in the name, you would enter(.)workflow(.) into the ignore types textbox.

Integration Connection

The Jira Integration connection is designed to write Issues and their associated metadata into a specified Jira project, and conditionally create the Project if it does not exist. This connection will also allow Simflofy to retrieve Issues and their associated metadata from Jira. Utilizing the Jira REST APIs (v2 for On-Premise and v3 for Cloud), the Jira Integration Connection allows the user to obtain Issues, Issue Attachments, Issue Comments, and Issue Components within the project specified in the Authentication connector. Click here for more information on setting up an integration connection.

Integration Connection Configuration

  • Connection Name: This is a unique name given to the connector instance upon creation.
  • Description: A description of the connector to help identify it better.
  • Authentication Connector: The Authentication connector to use based on your Jira instance type, and will be used to determine Project configuration information.

Job Configuration

Jira JQL Query: The Optional JQL Query for narrowing down Issues. For more information on JQL visit this site.

Content Service Connection

The methods currently supported for this connector are:

  • Create File
  • Delete Object By Id
  • Get File Content
  • Get Object Properties
  • Get Types
  • Get Type Definition
  • List Folder Items

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