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Add emailed reproduction steps to a Bitbucket issue

Keep new debugging clues attached to the issue they help explain.

Trigger

New Gmail Message Received Trigger

Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.

Action

Create an issue comment

Adds a new comment with markdown support to an existing bitbucket issue.

Why this helps

Reproduction details often arrive later in separate email threads and are easy to miss.

  • Keep new debugging evidence with the existing issue
  • Avoid creating duplicate issues for follow-up details
  • Make useful email context easier for engineers to find

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Gmail and Bitbucket once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name.
  • 3In one instruction, ask Notis to find emails with new reproduction details, identify the existing issue, and add a concise comment with those details.
  • 4Pick New Gmail Message Received as the trigger and choose where run reports should go.
  • 5Test with one real follow-up email and its related issue.

Questions about this workflow

Will a follow-up email create a new issue?

The instruction should ask Notis to comment on the existing issue when it can identify one, rather than creating a duplicate.

What if the email does not identify an issue?

Tell Notis to skip the update when it cannot confidently find the related issue.

When this happens · Trigger

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Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Gmail to Bitbucket. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Gmail triggers

Bitbucket actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Create a branch

Creates a new branch in a bitbucket repository from a target commit hash; the branch name must be unique, adhere to bitbucket's naming conventions, and not include the 'refs/heads/' prefix.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Create an issue

Creates a new issue in a bitbucket repository, setting the authenticated user as reporter; ensures assignee (if provided) has repository access, and that any specified milestone, version, or component ids exist.

ActionInstant

Email Sent

Triggers when a Gmail message is sent by the authenticated user. It polls the 'SENT' label and emits metadata including sender, recipients, subject, timestamp, and thread ID.

TriggerPolling

Create an issue comment

Adds a new comment with markdown support to an existing bitbucket issue.

ActionInstant

New Gmail Message Received Trigger

Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.

TriggerPolling

Create a pull request

Creates a new pull request in a specified bitbucket repository, ensuring the source branch exists and is distinct from the (optional) destination branch.

ActionInstant

Create repository

Creates a new bitbucket 'git' repository in a specified workspace, defaulting to the workspace's oldest project if `project key` is not provided.

ActionInstant

Create snippet comment

Posts a new top-level comment or a threaded reply to an existing comment on a specified bitbucket snippet.

ActionInstant

Delete issue

Permanently deletes a specific issue, identified by its `issue id`, from the repository specified by `repo slug` within the given `workspace`.

ActionInstant

Delete repository

Permanently deletes a specified bitbucket repository; this action is irreversible and does not affect forks.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Gmail and Bitbucket, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

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