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Optimize your approval processes based on your team's needs: Budget approval, Travel approval, Production approval, etc.
Do you often set up issues that need approval to move to production? Do you need budget approval from your manager only for large budgets but not for smaller ones? In every organization, a budget approval process is required. Trigger budget approval efficiently and in accordance with your company's policies and rules with JSU.
With JSU Automation Suite for Jira Workflows you can configure, that the workflow will transition automatically to the correct status.
Have a look at the diagram below.
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After the user submits the budget, JSU will continue from the DECISION status and automatically forward the process to the correct status, depending on the business rules in place: here, Budget <= 1'000 OR Budget > 1'000.
Check out the "How to" video further below to configure your budget approval automation.
How to configure this workflow
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Watch this video to see all of this in action:
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Save you and your users' time and effort by letting JSU streamline approvals in your workflow
↓ Follow the visual step-by-step guide below to see how to configure this automation in your Jira instance. ↓
- If you use Jira to manage approvals in a workflow, then you'll know how any unnecessary steps and actions can cause frustration for those requesting approval, and those approving too.
Below is an example "approvals workflow" that is already configured as part of this tutorial. If you want, you can re-create this workflow in your instance in a few minutes. The main feature of the workflow is that from the status, the issue could then move to either Status |
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or . We'll add the logic to automate this decision-making in future steps.
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- To begin automating this workflow, we first want to set the criteria we'll use for determining what "requires approval" and what can be streamlined to be automatically "approved".
For our example workflow, we want to require approval for issues where the field "Budget Required" is over 1000. Where it is less than 1000, we'll let JSU automatically approve the request for us. To get started, make sure you're in "Edit Mode" for your workflow and then click on the transition (arrow) connecting the and Status |
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- From the pop-up that appears - click on "Conditions".
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- Now let's choose "Add Condition".
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- From the list of Conditions, choose "Value Field" and then click "Add".
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- Now, let's configure the Condition to ensure only the issues we desire have the ability to transition to
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Field - Choose the field you want to inspect the value of, to determine whether an approval can be streamlined for it. In our case, we have a field called "Budget Required" that we've chosen.
Condition - Choose the type of comparison you're going to use when comparing with the value. In our case, we want to require approval when the "Budget Required" is greater than (or equal to) 1000. So we need to choose "greater-than-or-equal-to / >="
Value - Type in the value you want to compare the Field against. In our example, our chosen value is "1000".
Comparison Type - To ensure the Value (a number) can be compared against the Field (also a number), we need to specifically tell Jira that in this scenario that Value is a "Number".
When you're happy with the configuration, click "Add".
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- You will now see a preview of the Condition we've just configured.
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- Head back your approvals workflow in Edit Mode. Now let's select the transition (arrow) connecting and and again click "Conditions" in the pop-up that appears.
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- Repeat Steps #4 - #6 to configure the "Value Field" Condition against this transition. The only difference with the configuration here is that we're going to set the "Condition" to "less-than / <" to ensure that issues with a "Budget Required" of less than 1000 can be moved next to instead of
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- After this, and just like in Steps #5 - #8, now you will need to "Add" the Condition, and then publish the draft workflow to make it active.
- Almost there! Now it's time to add our automation to let JSU make this approval decision for us, based on the "Budget Required" values when users move their issues to the status.
Head back to your approvals workflow in Edit Mode. Now let's select the transition (arrow) connecting Status |
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and , but this time select "Post-Functions" in the pop-up that appears.
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- Click "Add Post Function" towards the right-hand side of the screen.
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- From the list of Post-Functions, choose "Follow Up Transition (JSU)", then click "Add".
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- There's nothing you need to configure on the next screen, so all you need to do is click "Add".
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- Just like before, don't forget to Publish the workflow to make this new automation active.
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- Now let's go see the workflow in action!
Head to an open issue in your Approvals project. In our case, we have an issue currently in Status |
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and with a "Budget Required" of 500.
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- HINT: The issue history confirms this streamlined transition did in fact happen!
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- Now try the same scenario, but where the "Budget Required" is 1000 or more.
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- There you have it! Streamlining your approval processes in Jira just got a lot easier thanks to the power of JSU