Pause a Coupa approval when a Jira update needs review
Give finance a chance to investigate a reported risk before an approval moves forward.
Trigger
Updated Issue
Fires when an existing issue is changed in the Jira project you configure — for example its status, assignee, or any other field on the issue is updated. Only issues in that project produce an event. It does not fire on comment activity: adding, editing, or deleting a comment on an issue will not produce an event from this trigger.
Action
Hold Approval
Tool to place an approval on hold. Use when you need to pause approval workflow temporarily.
Why this helps
A new risk in a Jira ticket may not reach the person reviewing a related Coupa approval in time.
- Bring reported risks into the approval process
- Give reviewers time to investigate
- Reduce manual handoffs between teams
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Jira and Coupa once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation and give it a clear name.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to identify updated issues that explicitly report a risk, find the related pending Coupa approval, and place it on hold for review.
- 4Pick Jira Updated Issue as the trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real issue and a matching pending approval.
Questions about this workflow
Will every Jira update put an approval on hold?
The instruction should limit this to updates that explicitly report a risk and identify a matching pending Coupa approval.
Can the hold be reversed?
The available action places an approval on hold. Whether and how it can be resumed depends on Coupa's approval process.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Jira to Coupa. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Jira triggers
Coupa actions
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Updated Issue
Fires when an existing issue is changed in the Jira project you configure — for example its status, assignee, or any other field on the issue is updated. Only issues in that project produce an event. It does not fire on comment activity: adding, editing, or deleting a comment on an issue will not produce an event from this trigger.
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