MS Word
Background
ARNR has been a reliable partner in supporting various template types, such as Email, MS Word, Confluence, Webhook, and more, as outlined in Templates. We’ve heard many requests for MS Word template support, and we’re thrilled to mention that ARNR now allows you to create MS Word templates for your Automated Release Notes and Reports. This new feature makes it a breeze to attach the MS Word document to emails or download it for easy sharing with your audience.
MS Word template is available only for the ARNR Cloud apps.
Create a Word template
Navigate to the templates page on the ARNR screen & click on the Create button.
Select the MS Word template type and then you will be brought to the template builder page
Default template design is given for your reference to understand how all the customization options can be used in the template. You can preview the same template or design it in your way & save it to preview.
You can also use ready-to-use templates available in the template gallery
MS Word template fields
Customise the MS Word template
Spotlight issues
(Output) Variables
Custom variables
JQL section
Section
Fields
Custom CSS
Layout
Configuring Group-By Behavior in JQL Sections
Stats & Charts
Users
AI Generator
Preview a MS Word template
We are storing the locale of user in cache which is valid for 30 minutes. If any user changes their Jira language, it might take 30 mins to reflect in the app.
When creating or editing an MS Word template, it can be previewed & downloaded immediately. Just click on the Preview button once the desired changes have been done.
Based on the JQLs used in the MS Word template, you will need to input values. e.g. in the above screenshot, user is asked to choose 1 version since the template’s JQLs have 1 version variable in them.
Read on to know more about Generating release notes from multiple versions in a project
This will generate the MS Word template preview file in your browser. Depending on your browser setting, it will be automatically downloaded or a confirmation will be asked from you.
If what you see is the desired result, save the template. Below is a sample output file of the PDF generated using ARNR.
