Apply Templates via Jira Automation or API

When creating issues through Automation or an API, you might need to apply templates. For instance, if tests fail in Xray, an issue can be automatically generated.

Using this feature, templates can be seamlessly applied to the auto-created issues.

Apply Templates via Automation

With Jira automation, you can apply templates to issues. Below are the steps:

Generate token

1. Go to “Apps” on the top navigation bar

2. Go to “Manage Your Apps”

3. Open “Issue Templates Config” from the left bar

4. Go to “API Tokens”

5. Click “Generate Token”

6. Fill in the token label and expiration date

7. Copy the token

Note: once the generate token window is closed, token cannot be viewed again.

Create Automation Rule

1. Create an automation that adds Web request URL after creating a new issue. Please see https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/guides/automation/tutorials#manage-automation-rules for Jira automation tutorial.

2. Add a “Send web request” component as rule action.

3. Fill in the Action with the following:

To ensure that the rule does not overwrite important data, you can add a condition to check if issue description field emply or has only short value.

a. Web request URL: [URL]

To get the web request URL, go to back to API Tokens page: Top Nav → Manage Your Apps → Issue Templates Config → API Tokens and copy the Web request URL.

b. HTTP method: POST

c. Web request body: Custom data

d. Custom data:

{ 
 "issueKey": "{{issue.key}}",
 "templateId" : "IT-V2-039e00da-3703-4d2f-a7d3-6490ece4880a" 
}

• issueKey is the key of the newly created issue. It is auto-generated by Jira. You can leave this as is.

• templateId is the template you would like to apply. To get the templateId, please navigate to the Issue Templates Pro app → Click action (…) → Copy templateId.

e. Headers (optional):

• Key: Authorization

• Value: Bearer [token]

Paste the generated token in Value field, after Bearer.

Apply Template with API

Following similar approach, you can also apply template with API. In this example, we are using Postman.

Generate token

Please see above how to generate token: Apply Templates via Jira Automation or API | Generate-token .

Configure the API

1. Use the POST URL with the web request URL.

To get the web request URL, go to Apps on the top navigation bar → Manage Your Apps → Issue Templates Config from the left bar → API Tokens → Copy the Web request URL.

2. Fill in the generated token.

3. Use the following parameters inside Body.

{ 
 "issueKey": "{{issue.key}}",
 "templateId" : "ITT-V2-039e00da-3703-4d2f-a7d3-6490ece4880a" 
}

templateId is the template you would like to apply. To get the templateId, please open the Issue Templates Pro app → Click action (…) → Copy templateId.

HTTP Response and Error

The summary of the HTTP response codes is given below.