Is it possible to write a manual rule that can work on issues from a filter?

[Simon Brooke]

Hi Atlassianauts,

So, we are now using ServiceDesk, integrated with a Development JIRA project via the automation rule plugin (all hail the Automation Plugin for she is great!)...

I have a filter that generates the daily change report for the management folk using the PDF View plugin (also integrated with Automation)...

I do need to schedule an email with the daily change report, and of course this is dead easy with a scheduling trigger and send or save PDF actions...

However, I also need to allow a PDF report to be generated on an ad-hoc basis, but again, for a piece of JQL or a filter for multiple issues... The *only* trigger that allows this is a scheduled one as far as I can see, which allows arbitrary gathering of issues to handle... 

Although having to navigate to an issue in the first place to select the Manual rule from the More dropdown on the issue is clunky, is there any way to do what I want...?

In a perfect world there would be a new item in the Issues dropdown (like 'Import Issues from CSV) with a 'multi-issue' manual rule name...

Any thoughts... I suspect some sort of external REST call or similar will be required...

Any thoughts gratefully received...

Simon

[Huw Evans · Accepted solution]

Hi Simon,

This is definitely possible with a Manual Trigger and a Branch Rule, like so:

Then just add your actions under the second track of the Branch Rule.

Cheers

Huw

Developer at Code Barrel

[Simon Brooke]

Completely awesome @Huw Evans, thank you so much!!

Regards,

Simon