Can Sprint Report be sent in email using Automation?

[Steven Johnson]

I have seen the possible solutions of creating a subscription filter to email the sprint report data, or some of it, but it is not the same as the nice report that is generated using the "Sprint Report" function in a project board.

I'm trying to figure out if it is even possible to email out that nice report, for example, when a Sprint completes? It would be nice to automate that process and have that report pushed out automatically, but I cannot figure out if there is a way to embed or attach that report to a Jira Automation email.

Thanks!

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Steven Johnson 

Short answer: not with out-of-the-box features of Jira.

Longer answer:

There is a REST API method to gather the same data as the report, which could be called from an automation rule, and then you could dynamically build your own text-based report.  I suspect that method will be deprecated at some point.  If you still want to try this, the method is yourJiraUrl/rest/greenhopper/1.0/rapid/charts/sprintreport?rapidViewId=yourScrumBoardId&sprintId=yourSprintId

You could also just use an automation rule, trigged on Sprint Completed, and used queries to try to replicate what you need in an email.  Unfortunately you may not be able to do better than text-based histograms for charts in that email.

Another alternative is to build a dashboard (or Confluence page) which shows the sprint information, and send out the link when the sprint completes...possibly using an automation rule.

And there are probably marketplace addons to do this, if you want to purchase something

Kind regards,
Bill

[Steven Johnson]

Thanks Bill, that all great to know! I think the automated email to the dashboard link is probably going to be the winner for now. I appreciate the response, it gives me other stuff to ponder!