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An Open Source Jira Data Generator Tool
I recently open-sourced a small tool: Jira Data Generator It creates ready-to-import JSON files filled with random Jira issues with complete histories. What it does: Generates any number of issues spread across the months you choose Builds realistic status histories (Open → In Progress → Resolved/Closed, including reopen…
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Username error when pushing commits to branch
I am getting a curious error message when trying to push commits to BitBucket. Google search did not yield any results so I hope someone in the community can help me. We have several branches but the ones important here are Master and Branch1. Branch1 was branched from Master a few weeks ago. Now I want to merge Branch1…
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Allow anonymous view access to boards
How can I grant anonymous (public) access to boards? * I am talking about Scrum or Kanban boards. * Yes, I've enabled "Allow users to share dashboards and filters with the public" under "System Settings". * Yes, I've granted Browse Project permission to Public in my project's Permission Scheme. * Yes, I've granted "Share…
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Why Rovo isn't enabled on Atlassian Partner Portal?
Atlassian Partner Portal has tons of informationfor Solution, Marketplace and Training Partners. Considering all the pages and blog posts, it quite often hard to find something in there. Why isn't Rovo enabled on that site?
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Getting time grouped dashboard charts
Looking for a way to draw line charts on the dashboard: * On the X axis is time.* Based on a system/custom date field. (custom field is important) * Should be able to group by years, months, weeks, days. * On the Y axis is the number of work items in each group. Here is the important part: The X axis should show a real…
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Creating multiple JIRA issues from a Confluence table
I remember seeing a demo at Atlassian Summit 2013 on JIRA and Confluence integration which allows more than one issue to be created at once from a table in a Confluence page. Each row in the table turns into a separate JIRA issue and an issue link is inserted to each table row that links to the corresponding newly created…
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Time in Status: How to measure in Jira?
What is Time in Status and why do you need to measure it? You might be using Jira to manage all kinds of processes. Software Development, ITSM, and Project Management are only a few. There is always room for improvement and when you need to improve a process workflow, the starting point is always "Time in Status". In other…
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Are Atlassian Data Center apps on AWS affected by Chromium (80) CORS update?
I recently received the following e-mail from AWS... We are contacting you because you use application-based stickiness on your Classic Load Balancer(s). An upcoming change to the Chromium engine used by many popular web browsers might impact your application if you use the application cookie stickiness feature with…
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Exclude Non-Working Hours from Jira Time Reports with Timepiece
Optimize Your Jira Workflow with Timepiece Managing Jira workflows can be challenging, especially when trying to identify bottlenecks that slow down progress. This is where Timepiece – Time in Status for Jira comes in—a powerful app designed to track how long each issue spends in each status (or assignee, or group). With…
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How to delete a free cloud site without the wait period?
I have a free cloud site. I need to have it deleted completely. I've removed all the products and cancelled all the subscriptions but it has a wait period before the site is actually deleted. Since it is a free site, the Atlassian support portal doesn't allow me to open a support ticket for it. How can I delete this site…
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Why Atlassian doesn't provide API for purchased products?
Atlassian has bought several marketplace apps in the past and turned them into modules in Jira. Insight Asset Manager is now Assets. Jira Portfolio is now Advanced Roadmaps. Even the foundation of JSM was built on an SLA app from the marketplace (which I can't remember its name) Even though the options and flexibility…
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How to Find and Analyse Reopened Issues in Jira?
In an ideal world, we would have all problems analyzed once, all designs approved once and all implementations tested once. But that is rarely the case. More often than not, tasks go through several repetitions before being marked as complete. When you want to optimize your process and improve your team's productivity, one…
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Importing issues with custom field changes in their histories
I am importing issues to Jira Cloud from json. (json was not created from another system. I am trying to forge json files to create issues to use in testing) This is the history part of my sample json... "history":[ {"author": "admin" ,"created": "2024-03-20T15:30:00+0300" ,"items":[{"field": "Change reason" , "fieldType":…
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How to handle transitive vulnerabilities originating from ACSB?
We are building cloud apps using the Connect Framework (ACSB to be precise). When we run security scans of our apps, several packages with vulnerabilities are identified in ACSB, compatible SpringBoot version, or other Atlassian dependencies. I am sure Atlassian is also running these scans and evaluating each reported…
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Does the community site have a public REST API?
Atlassian Marketplace has a capable Pubic REST API. As a vendor, we can get insights about the searches performed on the marketplace site and how those searches hit our products. Is there a similar thing for community.atlassian.com? I mean the searches performed by the users here are equally (if not more) important for…
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How to delegate user permissions in Jira
Delegation of permissions has long been a missing part of Jira. Jira is powerful and Jira is everywhere. It is used for all kinds of processes and it provides configuration options to set which users can see, create, edit, delete, approve, etc. But when somebody goes on vacation for two weeks, defining temporary…
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Jira Automation: Can't use the result of a math expression to calculate a date
I am using Jira Automation on Jira DC 9.3. What I am trying to do is to use the result of a math round function as a parameter of plusDays() function to set the duedate field. (Below, I am using the value 13.2 for brevity. Actually, that value will come from another smart value, from the json of a previous REST call…
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How to get parent issue fields in JQL search results on Cloud
While searching for issues using the /rest/api/3/search endpoint, we can use the fields parameter to select which issue fields to include in the results. For subtasks, the parent field can be used here and the parent field is actually a complex JSON object that includes the id, key, summary, status, priority, and issuetype…
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Next-gen projects' People fields do not keep complete history entries
When you are using a Next-gen project (Team Managed Project as they are called now) and you create a field of type People to use on your issues, this field will not keep its history correctly. When you change the value of this field, the changelog will include an entry for this but it will not display the user names. This…
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How to set the default Search Template for my custom field type to None
I am developing a custom field type for Jira 8.x. My custom field will support a earch Template but I want it to be non-searchable by default. The admin can choose to Edit the custom field and set a Search Template but I want the default Search Template to be None. How can I do that? I've checked this document about it but…
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How to increase the width of transition buttons dropdown to allow longer names
My workflow has long transition names and several of them. They naturally don't fit in the transition buttons dropdown on issue view screen and they are trimmed. I can't see the whole names. How can I increase the width of the dropdown and the transition names displayed in the dropdown menu so I can see full names? I've…
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Customers getting errors while re-installing Connect app on a migrated instance
Our Jira Cloud app is a Connect app. Customers frequently get errors while trying to re-install our app on a Jira Cloud instance if they’ve overwritten that instance's data by importing from another cloud instance or from an on-prem Jira. To resolve the issue, we remove the DB table row for customer’s cloud instance from…
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Where to keep YAML specs for a Bamboo build plan?
We are trying to switch to using YAML specs file for our Bamboo build plan but can't decide where to keep the file. First, some background. As many teams do, we do feature development on separate branches on BitBucket. Bamboo is configured to auto-create build plan branches based on source control branches so CI builds are…
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Which Cache contains Confluence Bandana data?
Atlassian documentation says the data in Bandana table is cached by Confluence. https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/bandana-caching/ Which type of Cache(s) shown in Confluence Cache Statistics page hold Bandana data?
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Removing search template to improve performance
Many Atlassian documents state that creating custom fields greatly effects system performance so creating a large number of custom fields (several hundreds of fields maybe close to a thousand) is not recommended. The documentation also states that not every field effects the system equally. For example selectlist fields…