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Patrick Li
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Patrick Li is the cofounder of AppFusions and works as a senior engineer there, specializing in integration solutions with many enterprise applications and platforms, including IBM Connections, Jive, Google Apps, and more. He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over 10 years, developing products and solutions for the Atlassian platform and providing expert consulting services. He has authored many books and video courses covering Jira. He has extensive experience in designing and deploying Atlassian solutions from the ground up and customizing existing deployments for clients across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.
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Process automation


When running a service desk, there are many mundane and repetitive tasks that can end up wasting a lot of your team's time. For example, after a request is closed, if the customer adds a comment afterwards, the request needs to be reopened so it will be placed back into the queue for agents to work on again. Normally, this would require either an agent to manually reopen the request, or you, as the JIRA administrator, to configure the workflow used by your service desk project to automatically reopen the request. This can be tedious for the agents, and overwhelming for you, if there are many service desk projects needing this kind of automation.

The good news is, JIRA Service Desk has a process automation feature that greatly reduces the complexity and allows each service desk owner (users with Administer Projects permission) to set up the automation rules, as shown in the following screenshot:

Follow the steps below to set up automation rules:

  1. Browse to the project administration...

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Patrick Li is the cofounder of AppFusions and works as a senior engineer there, specializing in integration solutions with many enterprise applications and platforms, including IBM Connections, Jive, Google Apps, and more. He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over 10 years, developing products and solutions for the Atlassian platform and providing expert consulting services. He has authored many books and video courses covering Jira. He has extensive experience in designing and deploying Atlassian solutions from the ground up and customizing existing deployments for clients across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.
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