Transition Jira Issue when Bitbucket PR is approved

Summary

There are built-in triggers in Jira automation to capture events when PR is merged/created/declined. However, there is no built-in trigger to capture Pull request Approved yet (FR: JRACLOUD-81389 - DevOps Automation: Trigger for "Pull Request Approved" or changes requested in automations). To achieve the same we can use a combination of Bitbucket outgoing webhook and Jira Automation for JIRA.

Environment

• Jira Cloud

• Bitbucket

Solution

Only pre-requisite of this solution is, the PR title should always have Issue key so that we extract that data using automation.

Jira Automation configuration :

• Here is a screenshot of the automation that we need:

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• Explanation:

  • Trigger : Incoming webhook 

  • Log action : To verify what is the result we receive when event is received from webhook and processed by regex 

    1 {{webhookData.pullrequest.title.match("(\b[A-Z]+-\d+\b)")}}

  • Branch Rule of the type JQL and in JQL add : 

    1 key = {{webhookData.pullrequest.title.match("(\b[A-Z]+-\d+\b)")}}

  • Transition to desired Status

Bitbucket Configuration : 

• Go to Bitbucket Repository > Repository Settings > Webhook

• Create a Webhook and paste the link from "Incoming webhook" in Jira automation.

• In webhook Trigger choose PR - Approved.

Whenever the PR is approved in Bitbucket, a webhook response is sent out and captured by automation. Automation then will extract issue from PR Title and transition respective issue.