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Why it’s Gone in Cloud, Persistent in DC, and the Survival Blueprint to 2029 Every Jira Administrator knows the feeling. You log in to make a quick tweak; typically adjusting a custom field c...
The way your Jira site is configured shapes what every team can see, access, and do. Getting the foundations right, from your global settings and permissions to your schemes and automation, keeps you...
Hello Atlassian Community, I’m Adithya, Product Manager for Sandboxes at Atlassian, and I’m excited to share that Sandbox Configuration Deployment is now available in open beta to al...
The AI paradigm shift didn't just give us better tools; it made us rethink how work gets done. And the Jira engineering team has spent the past year doing exactly that: reimagining how they plan, bui...
After working with Jira for a few years, I started wondering about something strange. Why do we archive emails, clean up old files, and delete unused applications, but we keep Jira tickets forever?...
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Hi everyone, I wanted to share something I experienced recently while working in Jira. I had a saved filter with multiple columns configured based on my requirement. While trying to add new colum...
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I've been wondering how Jira administrators view large SAP S/4HANA implementation projects. Imagine a solution that could manage everything from requirements and Fit/Gap analysis to WRICEF tracking...
Release schedule variance shows how far the current forecast release date has moved from the original committed date. With Jira Formula Fields, this KPI can now be calculated automatically inside J...
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Most teams believe they pay for the people who use Jira. They do not. They pay for the people who have access to it, and those two groups drift apart quietly over years. This is the sentence from A...
...n? That is Request input (the old screen configuration). What must be true before it completes? That is Validate details (the old validators). If a check fails, the work item stays put and nothing b...
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One thing I've noticed across several Jira Data Center → Cloud transformations is that the biggest challenge is rarely the migration itself. It's everything that the migration reveals. Data Cente...
For years now, Atlassian has presented organization users (members of a claimed domain) who do not have access to Jira or Confluence with a rather abrupt message: Well, as of July 9, 2026 (tha...
...reated a new request type and a custom field Department, which references Assets objects: objectType = "Department" AND Active = true I also added the filter work item scope "Member Group" H...
Hi Community, I'm looking for guidance on REST API authentication best practices for Jira Cloud integrations. I understand that using a personal user account and API token for integrations is gen...
Quite often, many of us identify issues and work with Atlassian to get them logged as Bugs or Suggestions. Once created, these requests sit in JAC waiting for visibility, feedback, and votes that may...
The final removal started July 13 and completes by July 26, 2026, rolling out through Jira's seasonal releases. If you're reading this and your instance still opens the old editor, you're in the last...
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As a Jira Administrator, I spend a lot of time in the Atlassian ecosystem, but until today I had no idea that I could link my personal Atlassian account with my company account. I've been switching ...
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I have been thinking about cleanup notes for old Jira sandboxes and test sites. The deletion itself is usually not the hard part. The hard part is knowing later why the site existed, what wa...
I have seen old Jira projects cause confusion long after the team has stopped using them. Before archiving or cleaning one up, I like to make a small record of what might still matter. My us...
Hi Jira admins! 👋 I'm Carol, a Product Manager on the Jira Configuration team. I'm working on something I think you'll have strong opinions about: should your team members be able to see space set...
One thing I've noticed in growing Jira environments is that complexity doesn't usually arrive all at once. It builds gradually. A new workflow is added for one project. A custom issue type is creat...
If you could remove one Jira feature tomorrow, what would it be? Maybe, not because it's bad, but because it causes more confusion than value for your teams. For me, it's interesting how some fea...
The Custom Field Zoo: when nobody remembers why a field exists Jira's flexibility is the reason most of us adopted it. A new requirement appears, a new custom field is created, work continues. At te...
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