Jira Cloud Admins
Created Jan 19, 2021, Last active today
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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...
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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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How Early Access Programs Reveal Atlassian's Future 💙 The Atlassian Friend Insight The best way to predict Atlassian's future isn't by reading the release notes. It's by following the Early Acce...
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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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This comes up indirectly in many reporting discussions. Dashboards, sprint reports, cumulative flow diagrams, or control charts that "look wrong" often turn out to have one common cause: Status Categ...
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👀 Did you know that July 14th was Jira Admin Appreciation Day? Jira is often the core of operations for many organizations. Depending on the way Jira is configured and implemented at a comp...
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As organizations scale their SAP delivery, Jira often becomes the central platform for managing requirements, development, testing, and project tracking. One question that frequently comes up is: H...
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Hi admins! 👋 The Admin Essentials Library is live! This is your one-stop hub for bi-monthly Admin Digests and topic deep dives covering the latest features and best practices in Atlassian Adm...
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Hello admins, We just published the first edition of the Admin Digest, a bi-monthly roundup of what's new and upcoming to Atlassian Administration. This month's highlights: 🛡️ Backup and Resto...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Quiz Time! Quick test: without looking, how many custom fields does your instance have? Many admins guess somewhere between 50 and 100. Then they open the admin screen and find 400. I've seen insta...
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Hey all, Curious how other Jira admins think about tool sprawl, specifically when parts of the ALM process (requirements, testing, compliance) end up living in separate tools instead of inside Jira...
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Hello fellow admins, I have an open question for the community... How are other admins are keeping an eye on, or better yet managing, configuration drift, especially for those in regulated indu...
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One small admin problem I keep running into in sandbox notes is that Jira fields often outlive the original reason they were created. The field name may still make sense, but six months late...
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A lot of Jira troubleshooting starts with incomplete context. Someone may describe a board, field, automation, or permission problem, but the answer depends on whether the project is company-managed ...
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When a Jira workflow change looks small, I try to write down the checks before touching the configuration. It keeps the change from turning into a surprise for the people using the board. My...
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When I touch a Jira board filter, I try to slow down for a few minutes first because a small JQL change can make work disappear from a team's daily view. My usual checks are: 1. Sav...
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Claude Agent for Jira was released on June 19, 2026 and the developer community is excited. And rightfully so — the idea of assigning a Jira ticket to an AI agent that reads the description, clones y...
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As organizations evolve, so do their Atlassian environments. New teams are onboarded, workflows are refined, Marketplace apps are introduced, and automations are added to support changing business n...
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Hi Community, Update: I edited this post to reflect the latest version of the project. It now includes Windows and macOS executables, a schema-aware configuration flow, support for Community Bu...
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Welcome, Jira Cloud Admins! This is a group where you can ask questions, access resources, and rub elbows with fellow admins and Atlassians.
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