Small helper for Mac OS/X to open Jira items

In our Kiali project we develop at GitHub, but have the issue tracker on a Jira instance.

Developers put the jira ticket number into commit comments and pull-request headers. To see the Jira item I had so far to go to the Safari url bar and type in the issue link. Sometimes there was a different item already in the history, so I only had to change the key. But all in all that was tedious.

Luckily OS/X has tools like Automator, that allow to create your own services.

I launched Automator and selected to create a service. For details about this see this article.

I then put a "Execute AppleScript" action into the Automator workflow

Saving this whole workflow under "Open in JBoss Jira" then makes the service immediately available

So I can now select a Jira-key and do right-click to get the service

Obviously the service is very much tailored to my need, so I'll put the AppleScript here so you can copy & modify it to your needs.

on run {input, parameters}
	set target to "https://issues.jboss.org/browse/" & (input as string)
	tell application "Safari"
		activate
		tell window 1
			set current tab to (make new tab with properties {URL:target})
		end tell
	end tell
end run

[ UPDATE ]
My colleague Max Andersen pointed out an even better way of doing this by having some helpers turn those keys into links that can directly be clicked.