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Installing Mayil’s Jira integration

Estimated setup time: 20 minutes Mayil’s Jira integration consists of a OAuth 2.0 app and a webhook. The general instructions to install a Jira OAuth 2.0 is outlined here. Information on how to set up a webhook is outlined here

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Prerequisites

  1. Admin access to Jira
  2. Enable OAuth 2.0 in the developer console

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Setting up a OAuth 2.0 integration

  1. From any page on developer.atlassian.com, select your profile icon in the top-right corner, and from the dropdown, select My apps.
  2. Select create ➤ OAuth 2.0 integration. You should see something like this-
New OAuth App
  1. Name the app MayilAI. Once created, you should see something like this-
New Jira app
  1. Go to Authorization. Add a new authorization for OAuth 2.0 (3LO)-
Add new authorization
  1. You will now be prompted to enter a callback URL. Enter <deploment>/api/callback/jira/ where deployment is where Mayil’s backend API was deployed (An example would be https://mayil.companyname/api/callback/jira/)
  2. Add API authorizations by clicking this button-
add auth
  1. Select Add ➤ Configure under Jira API and make this selection-
add auth
  1. Click Save.

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Configuring the app’s avatar

Go to Settings and select Change avatar. Update it to the image provided in the installation package add avatar

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Configuring Mayil’s backend API

Various details generated during the setup process will need to be copied and provided to Mayil’s backend API as configuration details. Update this JSON block with all the procured information- 
{
    "integration_type": "jira",
    "identifier": "",
    "ignore_labels": [ ],
    "project": "My Kanban Project",
    "secret": "",
    "url": "",
    "webhook_secret": ""
}
  1. Go to Settings for your new created OAuth app and copy Client ID into identifier and copy secret into secret.
  2. Identify the URL in which Jira runs and save that under URL (e.g https://mayiltest.atlassian.net)
URL
  1. Identify the project name and save it under Project. In the example below, it is “My Kanban Project”
Project Name
  1. Mayil can be configured to not run on a ticket if certain tags are present on that ticket. List the names of those tags under ignore_labels. These tags can be called anything.
  2. webhook_secret will be updated in the section below. After completing that, add this config block to INTEGRATIONS as outlined in the Configuration page.
  3. Now go to <deploment>/api/health and click on the Jira icon. Follow the instructions there to validate the OAuth app. Once completed, you should see this page-
full completed Jira integration

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Setting up a webhook

  1. Click the Gear icon on Jira > System
Webhook 1
  1. Click Webhook from the menu on the left and click Create a Webhook.
  2. Enter mayil-wh-1 under name.
  3. Set status as Enabled
  4. Under URL, enter <deploment>/api/webhook/jira/ where deployment is where Mayil’s backend API was deployed (An example would be https://mayil.companyname/api/webhook/jira/)
  5. Set a secret and update webhook_secret in the configuration details from the previous step
  6. Add these Events-
Jira WH Permissions
  1. Click save
This completes the Jira setup. A successful setup will be indicated on the health page (<deploment>/api/health)