How to connect Jira and Tempo to MuchSkills

Step 1: Create API Key in Jira

1. In your Atlassian account page, go to the Security tab, and click to Create API token

Click on Create API token (A) or Create API token with Scopes (B)

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A.1: Add Name, select the expiration time for the token and click “Create” button

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A.2: Copy generated API token

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B.1: Add Name, select the expiration time for the token, and click “Next” button

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B.2: Select Jira, and click “Next” button

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B.3: Select read:jira-user, and read:jira-work scopes, and click the “Next” button

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B.4: Click the “Create token” button

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B.5: Copy your API token

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Step 2 - Connect Jira with MuchSkills

Open “Team Settings” in Muchskills and scroll down and select “Integration” point in sidebar

Scroll down and select “Jira”

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6. Under Jira Integration, do the following:

• ‍Add email for the person who created API token in Jira
• Paste the copied Jira API token.‍
• Enter your Jira domain (e.g., yourcompany.atlassian.net).
• Click Connect

Step 3 - Set up Tempo integration in Jira

Open Tempo in Jira

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Go to the settings page

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In Tempo, in Settings, open API Integration page

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❗ 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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How to create roles in Tempo (click the image to access video instruction): 

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Step 4- Create Tempo API Token

To create roles, follow the following procedure  ⬇️

Click to create new token in Tempo

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

Copy the API token once it’s created.

Step 5 - Connect tempo with MuchSkills

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.

⭐ In the Team Builder page, you would be able to add and sync your Jira projects

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

⭐ Skill-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