Announcing approval by email in Jira Service Management

[#1]

Hello Community!

We’re excited to announce that Jira Service Management Cloud now supports the ability to approve requests directly from an email notification – a long-requested feature from our customers.

Users can already go from the email notification to the request and approve from there. Now, project admins can also choose to add Approve and Decline buttons to the email notification itself, and specify the level of security needed to approve from the notification.

Approval by email can be turned on at a project level in Customer notifications. Learn how to use approval by email.


EDIT: This feature is now available to all customers, and stay tuned for more approvals features! 

Best,
Jason

[Vero Rivas]

Fantastic !!! 

[Joseph Chung Yin]

@Jason D'Cruz -

Is this functionality only available for the Cloud env?  if YES, then when will this function get ported over to the JSM Data Center (on-prems) env? and if so, what version will contain it?

Best, Joseph Chung Yin

Jira/JSM Functional Lead, Global Infrastructure Applications Team

Viasat Inc.

[Jason D'Cruz]

@Joseph Chung Yin , Approval by email is already available in Server / DC as of version 3.12.

Here's a link to the release notes - https://confluence.atlassian.com/servicemanagement/jira-service-desk-3-12-x-release-notes-946615993.html

Note that they do not support the ability to approve without logging in. There are currently no immediate plans to port this particular functionality to DC.

Cheers,
Jason

[Dirk Ronsmans]

@John Funk you were waiting for this right? :)

[John Funk]

@Dirk Ronsmans  - Yes!!! I got to test it out last week - it is fantastic! It was exactly what I was looking for. 

[Emma Wright]

Sounds really exciting!

[Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority]

@Jason D'Cruz this is really great. Do you expose this via any API? Specifically I would care about:

• Get configuration
  • Is this enabled at all 
  • Recipients
  • Acting user inclusion
  • Notification content
• Update configuration
  • Enable / disable this
  • Set recipients
  • Set notification content
• Get approval link per issue

[Kathi Paquet]

When will this be available for the Cloud?

[Matthias Ortner]

Wuhuuuuuuuu!!

[John Funk]

@Kathi Paquet  - yes, that’s what this is for - and it works great !

[Kathi Paquet]

@John Funk Great!  I tried to activate this on my JSM Cloud but don't have the option for Security.  I submitted a help ticket to see if this has been pushed out to release!  I am excited about this!

[Jason D'Cruz]

@Kathi Paquet : We are rolling this feature out incrementally. You should have this enabled in the next day or two. 

[Jason D'Cruz]

@Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority , our public API supports the ability to

• Return all configured approvals on an issue
• Get status and approvers for a specific approval
• Approve or decline a specific approval

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/service-desk/rest/api-group-request/#api-rest-servicedeskapi-request-issueidorkey-approval-get

Setting approvers can be done be updating the approvers source field with the issue edit API

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/New-to-Jira-Service-Management/How-to-set-approvers-while-creating-issue-rest-api/qaq-p/1344903

We do not provide a public API for configuring and enabling approvals to a workflow.

[aaron.thomas]

@Jason D'Cruz it works for me, but i click Approve from the email it redirects me to a browser instead of the app on the JSM mobile application, is there a way where it won't bring me to the browser but just straight to the app?

[Jason D'Cruz]

Hi @aaron.thomas , Thanks for the feedback, and great to know it's working for you.

The link from the button takes you to the portal view in most cases and that's why it does not show up in the app. If a request is created without a request type, then approvals will go to the agent view. We will be adding deeplinking functionality for that case.

[Szymon Ptak]

Can I use those buttons in automation ? I mean the other type of notifications (via automation rules as a smart values)

[John Funk]

Hi @Szymon Ptak  - If you are asking if you can Approve or Decline an issue using Automation, the answer is Yes. Under the New Action component, there is a section for Jira Service Management.

And under that section is an Action for Approve/Decline request

[Kathi Paquet]

This is an awesome feature!

[Szymon Ptak]

But will automation let me accept via email?? I dont use built-in notifications because they are to simple and can't modify the whole content. So I guess I cant actually use them. Rofl

[John Funk]

Why are they too simple? Or why can you not use them? You could use automation to do something similar, but there are a lot of hoops to jump through and it is not real clean. 

[Szymon Ptak]

We're using cloud so we can't remove that first line in email :

—-—-—-—

and the fact we cannot use custom fields.

[John Funk]

If you haven't already, be sure to vote for this request and follow:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSDCLOUD-4642

[Maiv Xiong]

Is there any in the works about getting this approval by email for Change requests for CAB approval? 

[Maiv Xiong]

Disregard my comment. I was able to verify my own question.

[Jerrad Hermann]

Any way to force this to roll out for our instance of JSM? We'd like to use this right away, but it's not an option that is available to us yet.