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It's Thursday! This one is similar to last week´s but still a bit different. I am a Christian so I grew up celebrating Christmas. My favorite holiday tradition is actually not that old. My wife is a quarter German and her grandmother (and great grandmother and great great grandmother and ...) used to bake Stollen (German…

Ok, a little background history here. I am from Iceland and my mom would only put up the Christmas tree on December 21st or so when I was growing up. I think it was mainly because we had a live (well, dead by that point) tree and she wanted the needles to stay on as long as possible (you see, Christmas in Iceland isn't…

Decision When I read about the competition, my first thought was "nah, I can't really bake anything exceptional" but then I got an idea. What if I made a blue pizza with the Ace logo made out of cheese?!? So that is how I chose my recipe. I used Trello to help me plan and execute. In the beginning the Trello board was more…

It's Thursday! Piece of useless information: Thursday is trash day on my street. So double T. TT :) Most kids have a hard time pronouncing words as they are learning to speak, naturally. But then there are sometimes a word or two or even three that they continue to have a hard time pronouncing. For me it was rabbabari…

It's Thursday! Hi everyone. I hope those that live in countries that celebrate Thanksgiving are enjoying your day off. Let’s make it a great Thursday! KGM

It's Thursday! Some people are great pranksters! I know this one guy who ended up getting a degree in Engineering. He was once living in a very old house with bunch of other guys (yeah, could be any college accommodation). He wanted to prank one of them so he drilled a small hole in the ceiling. Then he created a gadgetty…

It's Thursday! Last spring, I asked you guys what your first car was. Now I want to ask you what you named it :) Mind you, I don't remember I had a name for my 1987 Toyota Corolla but I remember owning a white 198? Lada Sedan that I named Linda (Linda the Lada). Alright good folk, what did you name your first car? Let’s…

It's Thursday! I once had this roommate that had this super fast metabolism. I mean, he literally had to have something to eat on him at any given time or else trouble was brewing. This is all good and fine (well not for him, poor guy). We all have our challenges. But the thing is, he ate almost everything in the fridge!…

It's Thursday! Ok, this happened before mid summer of 1982 (because we moved to a different house that summer) and my dad had recently bought a garden hose reel. Bright orange with plastic sides to keep the hose in place as you reeled it in. Similar to this one below: This hose reel was kept in the back of the house, which…

It's Thursday! Are you a dare devil? Adrenaline junkie? I must admit that I am quite the chicken. I am no dare devil at all! So I won't be able to share my great stunts. But please, share with us what is the craziest dare you ever took. Hey, maybe that will remind me of something and then I will write it in the comments…

It's Thursday! Ok, good folk, this one is going to be a little different. This one is more of a DNA question :) I was born and raised in Iceland. Lived most of my life there. Two of my grandparents have been traced in genealogy all the way back to the settlement of Iceland around 870, then over to Norway. So I do call…

What is the app? ScriptRunner from Adaptavist How did you find the app? We found the app on Atlassian Marketplace early in our Jira journey What did you use it for? Wow, it is probably easier to answer "what is it NOT used for?" :) We use it to run post-function scripts in many of our workflows, use the added functions in…

It's Thursday! As a teenager in Iceland in the 80's, I remember the first video rental places opening up. Usually it was in people's homes. I remember one very well that was close to my home. It was in the small foyer of a terraced house (town home). They had set up a small shelf (where the shoes of guests were suppose to…

Hey all. When clicking on a card, the Issue Detail View opens up to the right. Can that be disabled on a board level? Or moved so it open up below? Thanks, KGM

Hi y'all Ok, so here is the scenario: * Jira Software * Cloud * No plugins * Software classic project Objective is to auto assign issues to the reporter without sending email. I am using the built in Automation on Issue Create to do this. Only trouble is that Automation triggers the Notification Scheme in that Jira classic…

... what is your favorite Princess Bride quote? I must admit that when I watched Princess Bride for the first time, back in 1990 I think, I wasn’t all that impressed. However, since then it has become one of my all time favorite movies. So, share your favorite – one or more – quote from the movie 😊 P.s. there is also “at…

We all know the brilliance of Jira; powerful workflows, excellent flexibility, fast, and can be customized to do practically any request tracking. And, we all love it! But what if you want to use Jira to provide Enterprise Service Management (ESM)? If I need an easy to use Portal for my employees and customers? If I want…

Hi good folk. I´m searching for certain types of issues, some of them have Due Date other don´t. So I basically have the same search twice, joined with an OR. First part has a certain due date criteria and the latter part is: assignee is EMPTY AND category not in (abc, def) AND due is EMPTY However, when I look only at…

Hi. Can someone contact me in order to merge my two accounts? Thanks, KGM

Hi all. So I want to use a Groovy script to hide a transition from issues that have Priority = Critical (or Priority = High but let's start with Critical). I.e. use this script as a Condition. I've searched a bit but not found exactly this use case. Any ideas? TIA, KGM

Hi folks. The search in Confluence has always been an Achilles heel but it took a turn for the worse after changes made in Confluence 6.14. Now it does not support substring (partial) searches. I made a ticket with Atlassian and this has been confirmed. There is a feature request about this…