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Overview of use cases

Overview of use cases

Owned by Jonathan Muse
Last updated: Feb 21, 2025 by Vanya Kiritzova
2 min read

Power Scripts makes Jira more powerful by letting you automate various tasks and customize workflows. It uses Simple Issue Language (SIL) to help administrators program Jira to perform actions automatically instead of doing them many

ally. Whether you need to automate routine tasks or create complex integrations with other systems, Power Scripts can handle it.

Automation capabilities

Power Scripts enables a comprehensive range of automations, including:

Category

Capabilities

Category

Capabilities

Advanced workflow automation

  • Update issues automatically

  • Create and manage sub-tasks

  • Implement conditional issue closure

  • Build custom workflow conditions, validators, and post functions

Event-triggered automation

  • Calculate custom field values dynamically

  • Validate input data

  • Edit issues in bulk

  • Send notification emails and text messages

Time-based scheduled processes

  • Create and update projects

  • Write to files to export data

  • Upload data to external systems

  • Generate custom reports

Role-based UI customization

  • Hide request types from specific users in Service Management

  • Implement field-level permissions (hide fields from non-managers)

  • Customize Service Management portal experiences

Email processing and integration

  • Send customized notifications

  • Process incoming emails

  • Send Slack notifications

Custom field calculations

  • Perform complex field calculations

  • Implement cross-field validations

  • Read text from Confluence for field population

Data integration

  • Retrieve data from external systems

  • Connect to multiple external databases

  • Sync data between Jira instances

  • Write to custom logs for tracking

External system connections

  • Integrate with Salesforce

  • Sync with internal LDAP systems

  • Connect to CRM and BI tools

  • Interface with legacy systems

Access control and tracking

  • Create new users programmatically

  • Track script usage and performance

  • Implement custom security rules

Power Scripts for Jira Cloud removes all automation barriers—with no limits on script quantity, size, frequency, or runtime—enabling your team to build sophisticated automations without constraints.

For a deep dive on Power Scripts features and capabilities, see the individual feature guides.

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