Andrew Zimmerman Community Champion

Happy Monday, y’all! It’s June 😲! In a few quick weeks, we’ll be halfway through the year! Can you believe it? Where I live, this month often ushers in the arrival of (the aptly named) June bugs, also known as May beetles (genus Phyllophaga). Although June bugs can cause a lot of garden destruction, they also bring a lot…

Hey, pals! Happy Friday! For this Feel Good Friday, I want to keep it simple: share a WIN from the past couple weeks. It could be a personal win, a professional win, big or small. If it felt like a victory and you were giving yourself mental fist bumps, let’s hear it! My win was from Sunday. We had severe storms and…

Ah, December. A time to reflect on the many accomplishments from the past year. This month always makes me quite nostalgic. What better way to think back on all our highs and lows than to celebrate our favorite Atlassian swag that's been by our side along the way?! Atlassian has come up with some top-notch swag over the…

This is actually multiple questions in one. If you've successfully implemented Atlassian Focus and Atlassian Talent at enterprise scale alongside a mature Jira Align site, would you be willing to share your experience? I’m trying to better understand: * How you separate responsibilities between Focus vs Align, and the…

Howdy, and happy Friday, Community! 👋 To celebrate this weekend-eve, I want to hear about your favorite "guilty pleasure" cereal, either now or as a kid. Or, if you don't like cereal and never did, tell me about your favorite dietarily-naughty thing to eat for breakfast. Growing up, I think mine's got to be either Cinnamon…

Happy Friday, friends! You’ve made it to the end of the week! 🎉 Here in Wisconsin, we’ve had some especially foggy, cloudy, and rainy days this week which inspired today’s topic: What are your favorite things to do on a rainy day? When I’m stuck inside while it’s showering outside, I find that it’s the perfect time to do…

I’m curious how other admins are governing the use of Rovo Agents within Jira Cloud Automation flows (rules), especially in enterprise environments with sensitive or segmented data. One thing that concerns me is how the Rovo connection currently works inside automation flows. As I understand it, the automation…

Happy Weekend-Eve, Community! With World Cup 🏆 excitement in the air, I’ve been thinking about how every great team needs different kinds of players. Not everyone is the goal scorer. Some people are the steady defenders. Some are the midfielders connecting everyone. Some are the super-subs who jump in at exactly the right…

Hi, everyone! Here's the recording from our virtual ACE on April 1, 2026 on "Demystifying the Atlassian Team Playbook." In this event, Atlassian Community Champion, @Amanda Barber, walked us through an overview of the Atlassian Team Playbook, an awesome, free resource Atlassian publishes to help teams overcome challenges…

If you're an application admin responsible for managing a critical Atlassian product at your organization, you've likely spent countless hours perusing the technical documentation. 🔍 Atlassian, and most popular enterprise vendors, provide comprehensive guides for setting up, configuring, and optimizing your instance. There…

Is it possible to export a list of Jira issues, with a column that includes the Development panel information that one would see on the issue's view screen (Number of commits, pull requests, branches, and statuses)? We need a way to see these metrics on a report containing many issues, preferably without first having to…

Happy Monday and happy December, fellow Community Members! 🎄 Each December, I find myself quite reflective as I navigate through the final weeks of the year. I think about goals reached, areas where I fell short, standout moments from the past 11 months, ways I’ve changed, etc. There are so many different topics to reflect…

Hi Community! 👋 I’d love to hear your thoughts on how you prioritize your continuing education. I consider myself a lifelong learner, someone who hungers for new knowledge and skills and is always trying to learn something new. From connecting with many of you, in-person, on LinkedIn, or by reading about your expertise and…

Hi there, A few days ago, when operating a series of Bulk Changes in Jira Cloud a strange thing occurred. While navigating the Bulk Change screens (e.g selecting the bulk change type, selecting fields to edit, confirming the bulk change details, etc), strange audio suddenly started playing. It was definitely playing from…

Happy Monday, Atlassian Community! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Why are they always too short 😉 ? Today, I’d love to hear from all you brave folks about the last time you overcame a fear. It could be anything from giving a talk, touching an insect, or skydiving. If it’s something you were afraid of and you did…

Happy Friday, Community! With all this building anticipation for Team ‘24, which is coming up in just a few weeks (holler if you see me there by the way!), it’s got me reflecting on other moments of hype and expectation in my life. I can remember the frenetic eagerness I felt as a kid the day before some family vacations…

Happy Monday, Community! 👋 Here in Wisconsin, USA, we are finally getting glimpses of summer. There are more and more sunny days and increasingly warmer weather. A big part of Midwest "summer culture" is getting out on the water: boating, fishing, water sports, paddle boarding, swimming, etc. I'm lucky enough to be very…

Hey, Milwaukee Community! I'd love to know if you're planning to attend Team '24 in person in Las Vegas next week 🎉. If you'll be there, let me know in a comment here. It would be great to connect with other Wisconsin-based Atlassian users in person 😁, and meet you if I haven't already. See you around! Andrew Zimmerman

Hi, My organization is using Confluence Server 6.12.2 and Adaptavist's Content Formatting add-on. We are looking for a way to hyperlink directly to a specific AUI tab on a given Confluence page. I haven't been able to find any solutions or workarounds for this. We would like to be able to create a URL address that brings a…

Hello there, Is there any information on how Community Groups are added here in the Atlassian Online Community? I was asking specifically in regard to the Industry Community Groups. I thought it would be neat to have a "Creative" industry group added, but I wasn't sure how to best go about requesting or pitching it. Thanks…

Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you all have a smooth transition into weekend mode. This Friday, I want to celebrate our plant babies! I have found many times that surrounding myself with greenery and tending to the needs of plants often helps to boost my mood and alleviate stress. It’s a great way to get out of my head and…

Hi there! I'd love to have some casual coffee/tea meetups once a month or so to network with y'all and discuss uses cases, challenges, industry trends, and best practices with Atlassian tools for your workplace. Anyone have any favorite cafes in the greater Milwaukee area with plenty of seating? Let's make it happen!

Happy Monday! June 5th is World Environment Day, a day for people around the globe to come together and raise awareness about the importance of protecting the environment and taking action to create a more sustainable world. World Environment Day was first celebrated in 1973 and has been led by the United Nations…

I have a multi-select custom field called "Teams Involved" with a long list of field value options. Users want a way to quickly see the number of teams involved on an issue to aid in prioritization and reporting. Is there a way to set up a scripted field that returns the numbered "count" of all the *selected* options of…

I'm just wondering if there is a simple way to export a list of active Confluence spaces into a simple CSV. Ideally, it would be directly from the Space Directory where the space name, key, description, and category are shown. Anything like this possible?

We all mess up. We all fail. They’re often very painful and uncomfortable experiences in the moment they occur but teach us some valuable lessons. Personally, I think people should discuss their failures more often. We’re all human after all, and I think openly discussing our flubs and botches provides a unique opportunity…

Hi there! My organization uses Confluence Server 6.12.2 and we have Questions for Confluence 2.6.15. For some reason, when I navigate to Questions>Topics, I only see 8 Topics when I know we have way more than that. When I search for known Topics, nothing displays. Only those initially displayed 8 are searchable in the…

Hi, everyone! My name's Andrew and I'm a new Atlassian Community Leader, online and for the Milwaukee ACE. I'm excited to meet and connect with local Atlassian users here. I just moved up from Chicago, IL this past summer (2022) and I work remotely, so I haven't had a chance to interact with many Atlassian users outside of…