Community FiveByFive Round-up: July 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, are the Community release notes. This month a number of fixes have been deployed that will correct a number of display items. Please check out the notes for full details.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Announcement-articles/Community-release-notes-for-July-9-2025/ba-p/3063436

• Next, be sure to congratulate all of our leader of the pack winners for this past quarter. Additionally, be sure to check out the categories, maybe you’ll make the list next quarter.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Community-Kudos-Feedback/Leader-of-the-Pack-for-April-May-and-June-2025/ba-p/3070877

• In case you missed it, there was a quiz reminding you of the Community Guidelines complete with a kudos badge for completing the quiz. While the window to earn the badge has passed, it never hurts to refresh yourself on the guidelines.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Community-Kudos-Feedback/Get-mindful-get-swag-Mindful-Member-Giveaway-%EF%B8%8F/ba-p/3057966

• Do you need a reason to check out Forge? What if there was a learning path that would teach you how to get started? You’re in luck because now there is! Check out this article and the learning path to understand more about how you can extend your Atlassian Cloud apps all by yourself!
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Training-Certification-articles/Calling-all-developers-Get-the-most-out-of-Forge-learning-path/ba-p/3057084

• Finally, if you want to learn about the basics of scrum, Atlassian has developed a new learning path for “Scrum Basics“ that you can register for today!
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Training-Certification-articles/Want-to-learn-scrum-basics-then-get-credentialed-for-free/ba-p/3062042

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, @Kristian Klima shares a really neat trick to automatically trigger a re-index of Confluence Cloud. Thought this wasn’t possible? I know I was skeptical at first to! Check out this article to learn more.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-articles/Reindex-a-Confluence-Cloud-Site-manually-workaround/ba-p/3061612

• Next, I found another great set of tips & tricks by @Robert Nadon. This time he’s sharing some neat ways you can use Assets with JSM for Workflow approvals. Sound interesting? Check this out for more details!
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/JSM-News-Discussions-articles/JSM-Tips-amp-Tricks-Workflow-Approver-from-Assets/ba-p/3068434

• Next up, if you needed more convincing that you should check out the Forge Learning Path, here it is!  @Bryan Guffey has written a fantastic piece that will inspire you about what is possible with Forge. Be sure to check this out!
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Save-Your-Company-Thousands-by-Using-Forge-to-Write-Your-Own/ba-p/3059342

• Do you struggle to stay on top of your Atlassian notifications? I know I definitely do at times! Well fear no more, @Adam Setch has written a great piece and a small desktop app that can help you stay up to date with your notifications in a flexible way. If you find this interesting, be sure to check this out for more information and a link to download the app.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Watercooler-articles/How-I-stay-on-top-of-my-Atlassian-notifications/ba-p/3071385

• Finally, a possible “hot take”, but I think these are important to highlight as critical discussions are how changes get made in the first place.  @Sami Shaik has put together a very well written piece about the imposition of a forced rollout of Rovo and Atlassian Intelligence defaulted “ON“. My company was personally hit by this as well, and having already opted out of the automatic enablement of Atlassian Intelligence, our security team was not pleased that this happened again. I would encourage you to check this out and leave your own thoughts!
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Rovo-articles/Why-Atlassian-Needs-to-Rethink-the-Forced-Rollout-Strategy-for/ba-p/3066231

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!

• First up, you may remember there was come controversy around the change in default behavior for JSM transition comments between internal vs customer. Atlassian is now letting you choose what is best for your company. A toggle has now been released which let’s you set the default behavior for what works best for you. If you were affected by this change, here is proof that using your voice can make change happen.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Service-Management-articles/New-Jira-Service-Management-settings-toggle-Set-default/ba-p/3056534

• Next, continuing the news about Forge, pricing for Forge which will take effect January 2026 has now been announced. A free plan will still exist so there is no reason to worry about checking things out and following the learning path. However, for our Marketplace Partner friends, you will want to check this out and see what this will mean for your apps.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Forge-pricing/Updates-to-Forge-Pricing-Effective-January-2026/ba-p/3063446

• Next up, Teams is becoming a foundational features across the Atlassian apps and now you can synchronize you teams from Workday. This is a great addition that avoids you having to duplicate the work to manage your teams.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-Teams-User-Group/Sync-Your-Teams-from-Workday-into-Atlassian/ba-p/3066461

• Looking for an easy way to stay up to date with the work your team members are working on? You now have the ability within Atlassian Home to see this in the new discover feed.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlas-Group-articles/Discover-popular-content-in-Home/ba-p/3064298

• Finally, also within Atlassian Home, there is a new feature you can opt into that will give you the ability to add new insights to your Home dashboard to be able to keep up with things at a glance. https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-Home-articles/Dashboard-Insights-now-available-in-Home-Dashboards/ba-p/3063225

Inspirational Journeys:

This month I wanted to highlight some articles that might inspire you to consider becoming a Community Champion. Be sure to check these out!

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Watercooler-articles/From-conference-chats-to-real-community-My-journey-to-becoming-a/ba-p/3066121 - by @Kerli Suve 

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Watercooler-articles/How-I-Replaced-Gaming-with-the-Atlassian-Community/ba-p/3066309 - by @Tomislav Tobijas 

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Watercooler-articles/I-thought-I-was-just-hosting-an-event-but-that-plan-changed-My/ba-p/3066598 - by @Huwen Arnone _Deiser_ 

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Watercooler-articles/From-Not-Knowing-How-to-Write-to-Expressing-My-Life-in-Words-A/ba-p/3067073 - by @Teodora V _Fun Inc_ 

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Welcome-Center-articles/Keypointers-when-you-start-your-Atlassian-Community-Journey/ba-p/3070695 - by @Nagarajan Balasubramanian 

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/forums/Automation-articles/Automation-Rule-Management-API-is-now-in-Open-EAP-Try-it-out-and/ba-p/3066541

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Automation-articles/Unlock-Advanced-Workflow-Orchestration-With-These-New/ba-p/3057396

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Automation-articles/Automation-quot-Edit-page-quot-action-now-available-in/ba-p/3066529

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Service-Management-articles/Unlocking-new-capabilities-for-Playbooks-in-Jira-Service/ba-p/3059217

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Cloud-Admins-articles/Python-Script-Retrieve-and-analyze-Jira-Cloud-project-statuses/ba-p/3067948

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!

[Kristian Klima]

Wow, thanks for the metion @Jimmy Seddon!

[Teodora V _Fun Inc_]

Thank you for sharing my article @Jimmy Seddon! :) And as always, great overview!  

[Nagarajan Balasubramanian]

@Jimmy Seddon  Wow :)

[Huwen Arnone _Deiser_]

I made it to @Jimmy Seddon's Community Round-ups, I have nothing else to do here now🔥🔥

Thank you very much for sharing it, this is cool!! 

[Kristján Geir Mathiesen]

Thanks for gathering all this info, @Jimmy Seddon 

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@Jimmy Seddon 

Thanks very much for getting this round up.

[Carlos Garcia Navarro]

As usual, great article and summary, @Jimmy Seddon ! Thanks for sharing all these great pieces of information!

[Elena_Communardo Products]

Great summary! Thank you @Jimmy Seddon for the research and for sharing it.

[Matthias Stingl]

Very helpful summary of what happened, thank you very much @Jimmy Seddon!