Saving Time in Jira

Note: This GIF shows how to copy snippets to your dashboard so that you can use them and customize them to fit your needs.

Typing repetitive issue descriptions and notes in Jira can be tedious, time-consuming and error-prone. With Text Blaze, you can automate much of your repetitive typing, copy-pasting and clicking. Below are a few examples for how to do that.

Eliminating repetitive typing in issues, tasks and more

With Text Blaze you can save snippets of text you type repetitively and insert them anywhere in Jira with a keyboard shortcut. Snippets can support rich text formatting such as lists, text bolding and indentation, etc.

Issue description template

Goal:
Customer:
Success criteria:
Success threshold:
Trigger:
Links to documents:

Consistent and complete descriptions with customizable templates

Write consistent and complete descriptions and notes in a fraction of the time. Add placeholders and other form fields to your snippet to turn it into a template that you can customize in real time.

issue description template with form fileds

Goal: {formtext: name=goal}
Customer: {formtext: name=customer}
Success criteria: {formmenu: Daily Active Users; default=Revenue; Retention; name=success}
Success threshold: {formtext: name=threshold; default=>20% increase}
Trigger: {formtext: name=trigger}
Links to documents: {formparagraph: name=links; default=\ - link 1

link 2}

Automating workflows

Text Blaze can automate common workflows within Jira, such as assigning an issue to someone, by simulating a series of keyboard keypresses.

Capture the sequence of keyboard keys require to complete a task and trigger them in Jira. Your snippet will look similar to this:

Autopilot - change assignee

{note}Use in an issue description to change the asignee{endnote: trim=yes} {repeat: 16}{key: tab}{endrepeat}{key: enter}C{wait: delay=+2s}{key: enter}

Try this snippet in the description of an issue

Read more about automating workflows in Text Blaze here.

Reading information from the page

With Text Blaze, you can clip any relevant information from the current Jira page and include it in your snippet.

Try this snippet in a Jira issue. It can't be previewed

Parent topic and assignee info

The parent topic of this issue is{site: text; selector=[data-testid="issue.views.issue-base.foundation.breadcrumbs.parent-issue.tooltip--container"]}. This issue is assigned to {site: text; selector=[data-test-id="issue.views.field.user.assignee"] div + span}