Community FiveByFive Round-up: February 2025

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Hello Everyone!

It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for everyone. Let’s get started!

Announcements & Highlights:

As always, there are a TON of amazing things happening and here is just a small sample of all the great things you don’t want to miss out on!

• First up, in case you missed all of the accouchements on various social media platforms. Atlassian announced it’s partnership with F1 Williams Racing. If you are an F1 fan, you will enjoy seeing the Atlassian logos all over one of you favorite pass times. For the rest of us, I’m still curious about what we can expect to see in the coming year(s).
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Announcement-articles/Introducing-Atlassian-Williams-Racing/ba-p/2942108

• Next, have you started using Loom? Looking for help on getting started? Or how to use a specific feature? Well, now you can ask for help in the Community! There is now a new dedicated collection specifically for Loom. Stop by and check out the first few new posts.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Loom-articles/Welcome-to-the-new-Loom-community/ba-p/2940724

• While you are in the Loom collection, one of the first things you should check out is the newest bite-sized learning course all about Loom. You can even earn yourself a shiny, new community badge for it.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Loom-articles/Bite-sized-Learning-Sharing-Looms-to-the-Atlassian-Community/ba-p/2943541

• Speaking of earning badges, I hope you remembered to share some love on February 14 to pickup your 2025 version of the Community Cupid badge.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Community-Kudos-Feedback/Spread-the-Love-as-a-Community-Cupid-for-Valentine-s-Day-2025/ba-p/2943828

• Finally, reaching level 10 is a monumental achievement. Recently, three amazing Community Leaders achieved this, please join me in congratulating @Hana Kučerová, @Esther Strom & @John Funk!
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Announcement-articles/Three-Cheers-for-Hana-Ku%C4%8Derov%C3%A1-s-Level-10/ba-p/2934680
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Announcement-articles/Celebrating-Esther-Strom-10-Milestones-on-Her-Journey-to-Level/ba-p/2940099
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Announcement-articles/10-000-Reasons-to-Applaud-John-Funk-The-Community-Champion/ba-p/2928423

Member Article Highlights:

As always, there are a TON of amazing articles written by many of your fellow community members. This is just a small sample of all the great content you don’t want to miss out on!

• First up, @Patricia Modispacher _appanvil_ has written a wonderful piece about the important items to consider when selecting your Corporate Intranet platform. Or, you can accomplish all of these things directly in Confluence. If you are looking for a better way to communicate across your organization, you might want to give this a read.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Welcome-Center-articles/The-Ultimate-Guide-to-Selecting-the-Right-Intranet-Software/ba-p/2938417

• How much do you know about Confluence Databases? Personally, I don’t know that much and I haven’t really looked too deeply into them.  @Mariana Silveira Sales has put together this wonderful piece explaining some really cool use cases that I think everyone should check out.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Insights-on-Notes-Documentation-with-Confluence-Databases/ba-p/2939233

• Speaking of interesting use cases. Do you want to learn about some interesting use cases for Financial teams to strategically plan with Confluence Whiteboards?  @Dr Valeri Colon _Connect Centric_ has put together is great set of tips to help get you started.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Whiteboards-articles/How-Financial-Teams-Use-Whiteboards-for-Strategic-Planning/ba-p/2941165

• Next, @Chrissy Clements has some really great insights on using the Atlassian University for scalable end user training. If you are looking for some ideas yourself, you might want to read through it.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Training-Certification-articles/Scaling-training-with-Atlassian-University/ba-p/2941212

• Finally, @Robert Hean has put together a great summary of his Community-Led Class on Confluence for support teams, including answers to questions asked during the stream. If you missed it, you should check this one out!
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/New-to-Confluence-articles/Confluence-for-Support-Teams-Highlights-Tips-and-Your-Questions/ba-p/2932897

New Features & Product Updates:

Want to keep up to date on all the cool things Atlassian has announced about their products? Be sure to read through these, then go check out all the others for your favorite product!

• Do you remember the Team ‘24 announcement that the features of Atlas would eventually be rolled into Jira? Well, it’s happening. If you have been using Atlas, you are going to want to read the article to see how this is changing and what effect it will have on you cloud instance.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Atlas-Group-articles/Everything-you-need-to-know-for-the-upcoming-Atlas-to-platform/ba-p/2941803

• Speaking of items announced at Team '24, Atlassian Guard (formerly Access + Beacon if on the premium version) has some new features you are going to want to check out. More granular data classification, new detections & remediation automation are just a few amazing features to help keep your data safer.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Articles/Further-boost-cloud-security-with-new-Atlassian-Guard-features/ba-p/2930550

• Next, Confluence is getting a new way to create Jira tickets. You can now create one or multiple Jira tickets from rows within a table. Sound neat? I thought so too. Be sure to checkout the entire walkthrough in this article.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/NEW-A-better-way-to-create-Jira-work-items-from-Confluence/ba-p/2934553

• Next, JSM is adding AI Suggestions to provide agents with additional information to take more effective action. Additionally, if you would like to help refine the suggestions feature, you may want to join the Lighthouse program to work closely with Atlassian’s product team.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management-articles/Announcing-Lighthouse-Program-for-AI-powered-quot-Suggestions/ba-p/2935460

• Finally, for all of my friends on Cloud Enterprise, your Analytics dashboards can now include data from Jira work logs and linked issues. If this has you interested, be sure to checkout the demo video included in the article.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Atlassian-Analytics-articles/Jira-Work-log-and-Linked-issues-data-available-in-Atlassian/ba-p/2943659

Important Upcoming Dates:

Atlassian has some reminders of dates that you will want to keep an eye on regarding deprecation to features or required maintenance announcements:

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-articles/Reminder-List-pull-requests-for-a-user-API-removal/ba-p/2935311

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management-articles/Reminder-Changes-coming-into-effect-in-Assets-for-Jira-Service/ba-p/2936741

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-articles/Announcing-upcoming-required-maintenance-for-Bitbucket-Pipelines/ba-p/2941196

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Announcement-articles/Follow-up-app-management/ba-p/2939923

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Cloud-Admins-articles/Inactive-users-will-no-longer-be-valid-values-of-the-User-Picker/ba-p/2934350

Automation Corner:

Looking for inspiration to optimize your processes? Check out some of the cool things people are doing with automation!

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Compass-articles/Announcement-Upload-OpenAPI-to-the-API-tab-using-Curl/ba-p/2934103

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Atlassian-Teams-User-Group/New-API-lets-you-create-group-linked-teams/ba-p/2934319

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/How-to-Use-Python-Jira-Library-to-Retrieve-Data/ba-p/2935853

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Data-Center-articles/Variable-scopes-in-a-ScriptRunner-custom-rest-endpoint/ba-p/2937204

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/How-to-Revert-the-Values-in-Text-and-Select-List-Custom-Fields/ba-p/2941103

It’s hard to believe another month has already come and gone. Please be sure to stay healthy, stay safe and I’ll see you back here next month.

Take care!

[John Funk]

Thanks @Jimmy Seddon  as always for putting this together. Kudos coming your way!!

[vikram]

Hi @Jimmy Seddon 

useful information thanks for sharing all in one place. 

Vikram P

[Patricia Modispacher _appanvil_]

oh wow, thank you so much for mentioning my article, @Jimmy Seddon ! This is so kind. 🙏🏻

And I really love these High Five articles you always set up. Thanks for your time and work.

Also, I attended that one session from @Robert Hean and loved it. Didn't know there was an article about it. Thanks for pointing it out. 

[Andy Gladstone]

I always wind up with too many tabs open after reading your monthly 5x5 @Jimmy Seddon! Lots of reading to catch up on.

Also, for all of those that know Jimmy, he won't promote this himself. He is once again merging his love of gaming and helping others by participating in Extra Life to benefit the Children's Health Foundation in London, Ontario, Canada. This is his 6th year - check it out and support him and a good cause!

[Yulia Lenina _AppFox_]

Thanks for sharing!

[Mariana Silveira Sales]

What an amazing compilation! Thank you @Jimmy Seddon for putting this together, and I truly appreciate you mentioning my article! 

[Dr Valeri Colon _Connect Centric_]

You're awesome Jimmy.