Laura Mehrkens Atlassian Team

Hi admins! I'm Laura, a Product Manager here at Atlassian, building new features to help you manage the performance, scalability, and reliability of your Atlassian apps. Jira and Confluence power your teams’ most important work. As an admin, you play a critical role in keeping these apps fast and reliable for the teams…

Hello community, The Confluence team is excited to announce that we have started to roll out a visual refresh of the Confluence UI! 🖌️ With this refresh, powered by the Atlassian Design System, we’re bringing a new look and feel to Confluence through updated icons, typography, components, and colors. Our goal is to make…

As a part of our efforts to make the transition from planning to execution smoother and more efficient, we’re introducing an improved way to create Jira work items directly from tables in Confluence. This update is designed to save you time and give you enhanced flexibility and functionality in turning your plans in…

A few months ago we announced the beta of a new and improved way to create Jira tasks in Confluence with the help of AI. Today, this functionality is generally available (GA), along with an exciting new capability. Read on to learn how to take Confluence beyond your standard knowledge management tool by directly…

Hello! I’m Laura Mehrkens, a Product Manager focused on integrations between Confluence Cloud and Jira Cloud. On behalf of my team, I’m thrilled to announce a highly-requested feature that's now available to all users! Drumroll, please... 🥁 Introducing Smart Links for Jira dashboards! What does this mean for you? Well,…

Hello! I’m Laura Mehrkens, a Product Manager focused on integrations between Confluence and Jira. Today, we’re introducing Smart Links for Jira dashboards! With Smart Links, you can now embed Jira dashboards and gadgets directly into Confluence to easily keep your team up-to-date on your projects. Here’s how pairing…

Hello Community! We are looking for customers who use the Questions for Confluence app. We want to better understand your experience using the app and how we can improve it. ❓ How do you and your team use the app? ❓ What do you love about the app? ❓ Which features are you missing? If you are interested in sharing…

Hello Community! We are looking for customers who use Jira Software and/or Confluence for reporting. We want to better understand your experience using one or both products to create status reports, visualize data or build dashboards. What’s involved in the research: * Sessions are 60mins and conducted over…

Hello Community! We are looking for customers who use Confluence and/or Jira Software for reporting. We want to better understand your experience using one or both products to create status reports, visualize data or build dashboards. What’s involved in the research: * Sessions are 60mins and conducted over…

Hello Community! The Confluence Cloud team is thrilled to share that theming is now generally available (GA) for all customers, including those on release tracks. We have been working towards this milestone for several months and have been gradually rolling out access through an alpha and beta program. Thanks to all of…

Hello Community! I’m excited to share that theming for Confluence Cloud is now available in beta! Joining Jira and Atlas, Confluence users can now choose Dark theme, Light theme, or match their browser’s theme setting. Try them all out and pick whichever theme works best for you — we can’t wait to hear your feedback! Why…

Hello! My name is Laura Mehrkens, and I’m a product manager for the Confluence Ecosystem team. Last month, we announced the release of Table Extensibility in Confluence through an Early Access Program (EAP). Today, I’m excited to announce the general release of Table Extensibility to all Confluence Cloud users, allowing…