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Overview

Emojis are an easy way to interact with Jira from Slack

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What to know:

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  • Use 🐛 to create a new issue from a single message.

  • Use 📷 to capture a thread of messages.

  • You can assign additional emojis to issue types globally or

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  • per channel.

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Prerequisites

  • You need to invite the bot to your channel to use this feature.

Adding 🐛 to create an issue

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  1. Find a message in Slack.

  2. React with the :bug: emoji 🐛.

  3. Click

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  1. Create Issue.

  2. Create your issue.

We will automatically attach files to your issue if the message in Slack includes a file.

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One-click create

You can default the project and issue type in each channel in Slack to make things even easier for your users.

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Configuring one-click create

Use the channel settings to configure the project and issue type you want to use as default.

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  1. Type /jira-plus configure.

  2. Click

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  1. Configure

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  1. in the Quick Create section.

  2. Choose a project and issue type to use as your default.

  3. Choose the emoji you would like to map to the default.

  4. Click

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  1. Save

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Configure field defaults in quick create

Use quick create field defaults to

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populate fields for users when creating issues from Slack automatically.

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  1. Type /jira-plus configure.

  2. Click

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  1. Configure

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  1. in the Quick Create section.

  2. Choose a project and issue type to use as your default.

  3. Choose the emoji you would like to map to the default.

  4. Scroll

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  1. to find Field Defaults, and click

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  1. Configure

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  2. Fill in relevant details into custom fields.

  3. Click

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  1. Save

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  1. on the Field Defaults page.

  2. Save again on the Quick Create

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  1. page.

Global emoji mapping

You can also define global emoji quick

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create to work in all channels where the bot is present. These settings would be in addition to any channel-specific quick-create configurations.

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