Adding issues from different projects to release notes
- Anand Inamdar
- Annu
Background
Different teams plan their projects differently. Many teams want release notes to be generated across different Jira projects. It is possible to address this scenario either using cross-project templates or with the proper use of JQL queries.
Solutions
There are three ways you can get issues from different Jira projects to be used in the release notes generation.
Creating a cross-project template with multiple version variables (Recently released, clean approach)
Creating different JQL sections for different projects inside of in-project template
Using project identifiers in the same JQL section inside of in-project template
Creating a cross-project template with multiple version variables
This is a recently released & cleanest approach to generate release notes from versions that are spread across different Jira projects.
Ability to create cross-project release notes templates is now available. This feature can be accessed via the cross-project ARN screen (available from the top Jira navigation).
Just ensure that the template you are creating is using multiple version variables in the form of [versionId1], [versionId2] or [versionName1], [versionName2]. When previewing the template, you will get the opportunity to choose projects & corresponding versions to generate desired release notes.
Trick
JQLs below use fixVersion = “[versionName]” and not fixVersion = “[versionId]”
For the desired result in ARN, versions in both the projects should have the same name. e.g. if both projects have version named V1.0 the query will work as expected but not if the version names are different such as V1.0 - android and V1.0 - iOS
Creating different JQL sections for different projects
In this case you will create different JQL sections for each project.
For example, if I wanted to generate release notes to include stories from two Jira projects. Here’s what corresponding JQLs would look like -
project='AR' and issueType=story and fixVersion="[versionName]"project='UD' and issueType=story and fixVersion="[versionName]"Using project identifiers in the same JQL section
In this case you will tweak the JQL in the single section that you have in the template.
For example, if I wanted to generate release notes to include stories from two Jira projects. Here’s what the corresponding JQL would look like -
project in ('AR', 'UD') and issueType=story and fixVersion="[versionName]"Need to generate release notes from different projects that have different version names? Follow below link -