Markdown to Jira

This project is a command line tool to allow you to make markdown-like notes as plain text and use them to create Jira tickets. It supports title, description, assignee and components for both parent and sub-tasks. It does not currently support epics.

Installation

npm install -g markdown-to-jira

Create a file at ~/.atlassian/credentials with the following contents:

[default]
host=your_company.atlassian.net
username=[e-mail]
token=TOKEN # See https://id.atlassian.com/manage/api-tokens
project=ACME

Usage

To run the tool in dry-run mode and test your task definition, run the tool with the -d flag. This will output ticket ID 9999 for any parent tasks and 1234 for any child tasks. No API requests will be sent and no tickets will be created

Provide a string on the CLI

m2j -s 'This is an example ticket @michael.heap {Documentation} {Node} #label99'

Provide a file

m2j -f /path/to/file

Example content:

- This is an example ticket @michael.heap {Documentation} {Node} #label99

Ticket format

Basic

• @user.name - assign a ticket and any child tickets to a user
• {Name} - add a component to a ticket. Supports multiple components
• #label1 - add a label to a ticket. Supports multiple labels
• Any other text on the line will be used as the ticket title

Advanced

If you're using the -f option to pass a filename there are additional options available.

- This is an example ticket @michael.heap {Documentation} {Node} #label99
  This is a description for the above title. It will be added 
  automatically and the description can span multiple lines
- This is another top level ticket without an assignee or components
- One more ticket, which will have children @michael.heap
  This is a description
  - And this is a sub-ticket
    Subtickets can have descriptions too, and they inherit the assignee
    and components from the parent ticket