I've got to say that this is a problem with relying on the UI itself. When working with a development team I always provide as many options as possible to autom

I've got to say that this is a problem with relying on the UI itself. When working with a development team I always provide as many options as possible to automate that worklflow. This might take the form of integrating bitbucket with Jira such that you can assign a commit to a ticket or advance or close a ticket. A few years ago I was looking at the jira API and managed to dig into the documentation. The result was a small gist which contains some of the harder to figure out actions. Including creating a new ticket. https://gist.github.com/TheMightyLlama/9427202 https://gist.github.com/TheMightyLlama/9427202