Auto-add Vacation Manager issues to Team Calendar

[Justin Buchanan]

Hi folks,

We're currently testing out the Vacation Manager add-on for Jira. Currently we've been manually adding people's vacations to a Team Calendar in Confluence, but if possible we'd like to be able to have these events added to the calendar automatically when the vacation time is approved.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance!

[Tomasz Witkowski · Accepted solution]

Hi Justin,

Vacation Manager uses standard Jira issues as vacation documents, so you can use post-function or Jira events to execute custom actions on given transition (in this case "Approve" transition) in Vacation Manager project. If Team Calendars have REST API then you can use it to make REST request that will update your calendar.
To create custom event handlers in Jira you can use ScriptRunner by Adaptavist, where you can define script that will extract start/end date values from vacation document, and send them using REST to Team Calendars.

Additionally, recently we released REST API for Vacation Manager, so for any other non-trival operations you can use it to automate processes. You can get more info in our REST API documentation: https://psc-software.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VM/pages/214761473/REST+API+1.0

Best regards.

[Justin Buchanan]

Thanks for the reply Tomasz! I'll take a look into that.

[Speez]

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