How to connect Jira and Tempo to MuchSkills

Step 1: Create API Key in Jira

1. Go to Jira Settings and navigate to the API Key section.

2. Create a new API key by adding a name, selecting an “Expires on” date, and clicking the Create button.

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🟡 Tip: Choose the maximum “Expires on” date if possible, so you won’t need to renew the key frequently.

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3. Copy the API Key you've just created

Step 2 - Connect Jira with MuchSkills

4. In MuchSkills, go to Team Settings.

5. Scroll down and select Integration from the sidebar, then click 'Connect' at Jira

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6. Under Jira Integration, do the following:

• ‍Add the email associated with the user who created the Jira API key.‍
• Paste the copied Jira API key.‍
• Enter your Jira domain (e.g., yourcompany.atlassian.net).
• Click Connect to integrate Jira with MuchSkills.

Step 3 - Set up Tempo integration in Jira

7. Navigate to Tempo in Jira by clicking 'Apps' and 'Tempo'.

8. In Tempo in Settings open API Integration page

8. Navigate to Settings and then open the API Integration page.

❗ Important: The user whose API key is being used for the integration must have the following permissions in Tempo settings to ensure full functionality:‍

View Plans

Manage Plans

Approve Plans

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Step 4- Create Tempo API Token

To create roles, follow the following procedure  ⬇️

9. Click to create new token in Tempo

10. Add a name for the token, select the expiration date, and choose the Full Access option.

11. Copy the API token once it’s created.

Step 5 - Connect tempo with MuchSkills

12. In MuchSkills, under Tempo Integration, paste the copied Tempo API Token and click Connect.

🟡 Important: If you only add the Jira API key without the Tempo API key, time and capacity information for your team will not display correctly.

Done!

Your MuchSkills integration with Jira and Tempo is now complete! 🎉

Benefits of integration Jira & Tempo with MuchSkills

This integration allows you to efficiently build and manage skill-based teams by leveraging the data from Jira and Tempo.

⭐ Easily Select Teams from Jira: When creating a new team in MuchSkills, you can directly select it from your Jira teams

⭐ Automatic Team Descriptions: The team’s description from Jira is automatically synced with MuchSkills

⭐ kill-Based Team Building: You can add relevant skills to your team, and if your teammates are already registered in MuchSkills, you can easily add them to your team and view their capacity for upcoming projects.

Important things

❗ Important: The user whose API key is used for integration must have the View Plans permission in Tempo settings. Without this, not all users and plans will be accessible via the Tempo API.

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We synchronize users by email - so if the user's email in MuchSkills does not match the user's email in Jira, it will not be synchronized

We automatically add a webhook to your organization in Jira in order to monitor the status of projects and synchronize users