Discussions
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Combining values from a bunch of Jira Items with a multiple select custom field.
Hi dear Community, I'm stumped that I can't get the solution of How-to-combine-values-from-various-multiple-select-fields to work in my usecase. The setup: The problem is quite similar to the question linked above. I have a top-level Movement issuetype that has children of the Initiative issuetype. On both the Movement and…
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Homepage diverting to dashboard.action#xxx
Dear Community, After careful construction of a new Confluence landing space ABC, I set it as the default landing space and ran a heat-map analysis over its usage. To my surprise, I found that the users landed on the correct space, but got diverted to the https://instance/ABC/dashboard.action#xxx page instead of the…
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Apache hardening for Confluence - How can I disable http TRACE method
Hi, As I'm now responsible for the technical nuts and bolts for both Jira and Confluence, I've been tasked with hardening the Apache protocols. For those unfamiliar: it's all about disabling the http Trace method, so that attackers cannot receive information about the structure of our network (running both Jira and…
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The benefits of Agile project management
To describe how agile project management encourages team growth, we’re hypothetically putting together a fresh batch of people in this article. But putting people together doesn’t make them a team. Sure, they can have common interests which allows some interaction on a more than haphazard subject range, but progress…
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Space List by Category
Hi all, I used to have three copies of the same velocity macro yielding me three lists of spaces. Each list was obtained by passing the macro a category name, so it would show the spaces that had that specific category. As the velocity labelmanager functionality has been discontinued by Atlassian, I'm wondering about the…
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Automation Assisted JQL Querying - When and how it can improve your user's experience
Introduction The aim of this article is to create awareness of circumstances that influence the time a user has to wait for a complex database query to produce results. For this, we introduce the query footprint. We want a small footprint to gain quick results. To get a measure of the footprint, we look at how many…
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Essential points about Story points (that are too often overlooked)
In this article we're going to talk about story points that were introduced in Extreme Programming (XP) software development by Kent Beck (1) and Ron Jeffries (2). Nowadays, story points have evolved into a means to get a grasp on the complexity and size of work items when working according to the Scrum Framework. Project…
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User deactivation on Data Center
Hi dear Community, I'm flummoxed. We're running Jira Data Center 9.12.11. We have about 30 accounts that have never logged in, are removed from our LDAP synchronization (from Active Directory), yet still count as active license users. The Atlassian Help page is referring to the ... menu behind the user having an "edit"…
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Macro Language transition Velocity to React
Hello dear community, We're on datacenter Confluence 8.5.4. Macros are still written in Velocity. In the latest version of Confluence, Forge lets devving users write macros in React. I would like to know: * Is Velocity available as a language to write macros in the latest version of Confluence * If point 1 is a negative,…
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Labels list for all spaces
Hello dear Community, In our Confluence environment, we've ordered major topics into separate spaces. To enhance user navigation we would like to be able to have a labels list that has the labels of all these spaces, in a similar manner to the existing labels list macro for a single space. Any help in this matter would be…
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(Re-)building teams
Hello fellow Atlassians, Most of you are in a team, agile or otherwise. Each member has his/her role and expertise, you know how to help each other out and pick up the most diverse problems seamlessly making use of the skillsets of the different team members. But this wasn't always so... Remember the first day your team…