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This tutorial explains the steps need to setup customized event notifications.

Step-by-step guide

To customized event notifications you'll have to do the following:

  • Create email templates for issue events
  • Configure notifications with issue events
  • Apply the notifications to projects and/or issue types

Create Email Templates

  1. Go to JETI Administration / Templates (JIRA_BASE_URL/secure/admin/jeti/jetiTemplates.jspa)
  2. Click Add to add a template for your outgoing emails, base your template on Default  or on an existing Jira event template (e.g. Issue Updated), call the template e.g. Custom Issue Updated Template.
  3. Customize the template according to your needs, use the field picker to inlcude add issue fields, custom fields, comments or issue linking information, etc.
  4. Click Save at the bottom of the page to persist your template.
  5. Test your template using the Test operation.
  6. Repeat steps 1-5 to create all templates you may need. Note: a template may be reaused in multiple event notifications

Related documentation: Email Templates

Configure Notification Events

  1. Go to JETI Administration / Notifications (JIRA_BASE_URL/secure/admin/jeti/jetiNotifications.jspa)
  2. Click Add to create a new Notification Template, call it anything, e.g. Custom Notifications
  3. Now you are in the Notification Events page.
  4. Click Add to add an issue event to the Notifcation. 
  5. Select an event type e.g. Issue Updated. and the template, you created for this event, e.g. the Custom Issue Updated Template.
  6. Now you are in the page configuring the event.
    1. Set the JQL filter to a valid query if you want to target your event notification to issues matching the JQL query.
    2. In Recipients (To), Copy Recipients (Cc) and Blind Copy Recipients (must be enabled separately), add recipients:
      1. Add users and/or email addresses
      2. Select watchers, project lead, assignee, reporter, roles, groups and custom fields in the dropdown.
    3. In Content, enter your email subject and body according to your needs. These values will be combined with the Template to build the emails content and layout.
    4. Also select an attachment rule, to specify how attachments should be (or should not be) added to the email
    5. In Options, select HTML email type and other options as you whish.
  7. Click Save to persist your settings
  8. Repeat the above steps from Step 3 to add all your events.
  9. Here your notification may look similar to this:
     

Related documentation: Event Notifications

Apply Notifications to Projects and Issue Types

  1. Go to JETI Administration / Contexts (JIRA_BASE_URL/secure/admin/jeti/jetiProjects.jspa)
  2. Click Add to add a new context with the following attributes:
    1. Project: select the project you want to apply notifications to. You can leave Project empty to use this context for all projects.
    2. Issue Type: select the type you want to apply notifications to. You can leave issue type empty, to use this context for all issue types.
    3. Template: select a default template for this context.
    4. Notification template: select the notification you created above (Custom Notifications).
    5. External Watchers Field: select a field to add external recipients as watchers to the issue.
    6. Sender Name Pattern: enter a name that appears in the emails as the sender, you can leave it empty. You can use velocity markup to dynamically generate the sender name upon issue fields.
    7. From Email Address: enter the email address you want to use as the from address in emails. You can leave it empty (in this case the project's notification sender address will be used) . You can use velocity markup to dynamically generate the sender name upon issue fields.
  3. Repeat step 2 to add all your context you want.
  4. Here your context may look similar to this:
     
  5. Now your notifications are active in the project(s) for the issue type(s) of the context(s).

Related documentation: Contexts

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